| 单词 | barrage |
| 释义 | barrage (once / 2566 pages) nv A barrage is something that comes quickly and heavily — as an attack of bullets or artillery, or a fast spray of words. Sometimes in movies or news footage, the audience gets a glimpse from behind a mounted weapon and sees a heavy rain of bombs or bullets — called a barrage — going toward a target, sending as much POW! as possible to hit a wide area. Words become a barrage when spoken or written in uncontrollable anger or with overflowing emotion: "Her human-rights speech was a barrage of passion. It was hard to keep up with, but we felt the intensity of her cause." WORD FAMILYbarrage: barraged, barrages, barraging USAGE EXAMPLESThe barrage of criticism amounts to a rare sustained burst of public anger by China’s burgeoning middle class. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) Yet last week, on a miserable rainy day, militants unleashed a torrential barrage on the district. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) The next morning, May 28, Acosta barraged Pamatz’s phone with text messages and phone calls, begging to meet with her. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1n the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops Syn|Hyper barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling fire, firing the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy 2n the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) a barrage of questions Syn|Hyper bombardment, onslaught, outpouring language, linguistic communication a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols 3v address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage The speaker was barraged by an angry audience Syn|Hyper bombard assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe attack in speech or writing |
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