| 单词 | flurry |
| 释义 | flurry (once / 1542 pages) nv A light blowing swirl of snow that's just barely falling is a flurry. There might be a brief flurry or two at the beginning of the winter, with no real heavy snow until January. You can describe a snow flurry, or a similarly swirling flurry of leaves or papers. When people act this way, rushing and fussing around, that's another kind of flurry. There might, for example, be a flurry of activity in the morning at your house as everyone hurries to get ready for the day. This sense of flurry is actually about a hundred years older than the snow meaning, which was first used in mid-1800's American English. WORD FAMILYflurry: flurried, flurries, flurrying+/flurried: unflurried USAGE EXAMPLESDecoding a genome now runs between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, spawning a flurry of potential new applications. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Travelers are about to see a flurry of new hotel brands. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) A flurry of pricey condominium sales, many of them at Manhattan’s newest ultraluxury developments, provided a strong finale to an already robust 2016. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a rapid active commotion Syn|Hyper ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult the act of making a noisy disturbance 2n a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that) he had to close the window against the flurries there was a flurry of chicken feathers Syn|Hyper snow flurry snow, snowfall precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals 3v move in an agitated or confused manner Hyper move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 4v cause to feel embarrassment Syn|Hypo|Hyper confuse, disconcert, put off bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly fluster cause to be nervous or upset bothermake confused or perplexed or puzzled deflect, distractdraw someone's attention away from something rufflediscompose abash, embarrass cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious |
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