spate

音标发音

• 英式音标 [speɪt]
• 美式音标 [speɪt]
• 国际音标 [speit]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 一連串（不愉快的事物）；（河水）猛漲；洪水；大雨

词根记忆

• 像宇宙空間(space)一樣→成大批，大量(spate)

同根派生

英汉例句

• Doctors have suffered a loss of prestige following a spate of scandals.
  接二連三的醜聞使毉生名譽掃地.
• The river is in spate.
  河水猛漲.
• The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.
  從統計數字上看，近些年來暴風雨和颶風的頻發非同尋常。
• The bombing was the latest in a spate of terrorist attacks.
  這次的爆炸事件是近期一連串恐怖主義襲擊中最新的一起。
• The Thames was in spate, with flocks of Canada geese speeding downriver.
  泰晤士河河水暴漲，成群的加拿大雁迅速遊曏下遊。

词组短语

短語

• Verrill Spate 標簽
• Kate spate 凱特·絲蓓手袋;波點長褲;推薦單品波點長褲
• spate flow 地表暴雨逕流
• spate irrigation 引洪灌溉
• spate e 一陣;泛濫

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time

柯林斯英英字典

• A spate of things, especially unpleasant things, is a large number of them that happen or appear within a short period of time.

专业释义

經濟學

• 一陣

地球科學

• 大水
• 洪水