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单词 torrent
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torrent
noun
uk
/ˈtɒr.ənt/us
/ˈtɔːr.ənt/
[S]
asuddenlargeor toolargeamount,especiallyone thatseemsto beuncontrolled:
（尤指似乎无法控制的）狂潮，迸发
Heletoutatorrentofabuse/angrywords.他连珠炮似的说了一大堆谩骂／生气的话。
They areworriedthat theflow/trickle/streamoftouristscouldswellintoanunmanageabletorrent if there are nocontrols.他们担心如果不进行控制，这些川流不息／涓涓细流般／源源不断的游客会汇集成一股难以应付的洪流。
[C]
alargeamountofwaterthat ismovingquickly:
洪流；激流
Heavyrainfallturnedtheriverinto arushing/ragingtorrent.大雨将河水变成了汹涌的激流。
torrents[plural]
largeamounts:
大量
torrents ofrain倾盆大雨
Theraincame down/fellintorrents.大雨倾盆而下。
We havereceivedtorrents ofletters/requests/criticism.我们收到了潮水般涌来的信件／请求／批评。
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(Definition oftorrentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

torrent| American Dictionary

torrent
noun[C]
us
/ˈtɔr·ənt,ˈtɑr-/
alargestreamofwaterthatmovesveryfast:
Heavystormsturnedtheriverinto aragingtorrent.
fig.The TVstationreceivedtorrents ofangryletters(= many of them).

torrential

adjective[not gradable]us
/təˈren·tʃəl/
The torrentialrainscausedmudslides.
(Definition oftorrentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

torrent| Business English

torrent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtɒrənt/us
alargenumberoramountof something:
a torrent of sthWe got a torrent of e-mailscomplainingabout theadvertisement.
a torrent ofcriticism/abuse
(Definition oftorrentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftorrent

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They committed themselves to guarantee a minimal flow of 10 mio m3/y with a monthly variation and to abstain from any additional withdrawals in torrents.
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He was miserably feverish—hot and cold—and poured sweat in torrents to no avail.
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The rain comes down in torrents, and all the tarpaulins you put up cannot stand up to the force of the rain.
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There must be attacks, but need they be in torrents of oratory?
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I had to listen to her for months—to her torrents of eloquence and her torrents of hate.
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The dirt roads will turn into torrents, stopping the relief trucks from getting through.
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If only there were torrents, we could have used them for hydroelectricity.
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We used to think that they were only for banana republics and foreigners, like pictorial postage stamps which now rain on us in torrents.
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The spiritual driving forces which took teachers into their vocation in the first place are smothered by endless torrents of documentation.
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What is the use of pouring out torrents of figures?
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Without any warning villages, people, farms and cattle were washed away in the torrents.
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An instrument designed to facilitate trade between states thereby became a vehicle for torrents of federal regulation.
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There is no access to it excepting, perhaps, by one railroad, a very few roads and mainly by the courses of the torrents which fall down its precipitous walls.
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By its very nature, the production of power from the torrents and waterfalls, rivers and dams must be a monopoly, either a private monopoly or a public monopoly.
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Such torrents of verbiage can be self-defeating.
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