spate

[speit]

n. 泛滥, 洪水, 突然的一阵

例句与用法：

After the storm all the rivers were in spate.

暴雨过后河水都上涨了。

词形变化：

动词过去式: spatchcocked | 动词过去分词: spatchcocked | 动词现在分词: spatchcocking | 动词第三人称单数: spatchcocks |

n.

1. 突然迸发, 一阵

2. 洪水; 大雨

spate

词形变化：

动词过去式: spatchcocked | 动词过去分词: spatchcocked | 动词现在分词: spatchcocking | 动词第三人称单数: spatchcocks |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

jet¹

sea

river

spate[speit]n.1.■(感情等)突然迸发(或倾吐)，一阵2.■大量，一大批3.■[英国英语]暴雨，倾盆大雨4.■[英国英语]5.■大水，洪水6.■泛滥7.■【水文学】春汛in full spate处在高潮，全盛

1. [usu. in sing.]a large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession
   大量；大批；一连串
   a spate of attacks on holidaymakers.
   对度假者一连串的袭击。
   
2. (chiefly Brit.)a sudden flood in a river, especially one caused by heavy rains or melting snow
   (主英)（河水）猛涨，泛滥
   

1. (of a river) overflowing due to a sudden flood
   （河水）泛滥
   ■(figurative)(of a person or action) at the height of activity
   (喻)（人，活动）在全盛期，在高潮
   work was in full spate.
   工作正在全速进行。
   

1. late Middle English (originally Scots and northern English in the sense 'flood, inundation'): of unknown origin
   

spate

名词 spate:

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

同义词：batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew

a sudden forceful flow

同义词：rush, surge, upsurge

the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow

同义词：freshet

spate

■(AFP report from Washington D.C.) US officials said that US Secretary of State Powell has made a spate of diplomatic calls in an attempt to settle the dispute between Morocco and Spain over a small island in the Mediterranean Sea.

(法新社华盛顿电)美国官员说，美国国务卿鲍尔进行一连串外交电话连系，以期解决西班牙与摩洛哥为地中海一座小岛引发的纠纷。

■Beijing has reasserted authority over airport planning after a spate of construction projects by ambitious local authorities in the early 1990s that were under-utilised and duplicative.

20世纪90年代初，雄心勃勃的中国地方政府上马了大量利用率不足、重复建设的机场项目，在这之后，中央政府收回了机场规划权。

■When baby sheep and baby camel are born, our grassland is green and our lake is in spate.

“小羊及小骆马出生的时候，草原正好再绿，而湖水，也更阔了。”

■"It issues a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians" (Virginia Woolf)

“通过喇叭从政治家嘴里突然传出一大串话”(弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫)

■Some economists also worry that the spate of new lending will burden banks with more bad loans.

一些经济学家也担心，大额新贷款会给银行造成更多坏债，加重其负担。

■UN spokesman, Farhan Haq said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was concerned about the spate of killings.

一位联合国发言人FarhanHaq说，潘基文秘书长对这一系列的杀戮事件表示关注。

■When a Chinese Indonesian expressed his wish to emigrate, a spate of messages came in, urging him to flee to the Mainland China or Hong kong or Taiwan.

一印尼读者吐露想移民的心愿之后，便有数十封中国来信促同胞快快逃到中国大陆或者香港或者台湾。

■A UN spokesman, Farhan Haq said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was concerned about the spate of killings.

一名联合国发言人称，联合国秘书长潘基文对杀戮事件的泛滥表示担忧。

■A new spate of vandal attacks upon some of Rome's best known monuments - including the decapitation and mutilation of several famous statues and monumental fountains - is worrying city authorities.

一大批新的破坏分子故意破坏罗马部分最著名的纪念建筑物,其中包括斩首和损毁几座著名雕像和具有纪念意义的喷泉,这使罗马当局烦恼不已。

■A small spate of visitors has been to this once forbidden region.

一小批访客去过这个一度禁止访问的地区。

■a spate of Bad luck

一连串厄运

■A spate of upbeat reports this week on manufacturing, consumer spending and home sales have helped send the market higher.

一连串的乐观报告本周制造业，消费支出和房屋销售帮助发送市场更高。

■A spate of events that seems to come all at once to pay tribute to Mr Murphy.

一连串的失望与打击，似乎全都是为了纪念墨菲先生而发生的。

■a spate of laughing

一阵大笑

■a spate of anger

一阵突然进发的怒火

■Spate of Odor Pollution and Its Change in the Center Urban Area of Shanghai

上海市中心城区臭氧污染水平和变化状况

■No longer able to carry out observations, Cricket uses the computer to find any articles about the recent spate of robberies.

不再能够进行观测，克里克使用电脑时找到有关最近一连串的劫案的任何文章。

■The spate of bad news.Still continue to bear.

不良消息接踵而来。

■That name, however, now seems quite ironic.Because all of the fun in the recent spate of papers is in the instruments themselves.

不过由于最近“泛滥”的论文都把兴趣集中于工具本身，使得现在看来“工具变量”这个名字显得颇有讽刺意味。

■Still, the latest spate of earnings report are starting to reveal glimmers of stabilization in the U.S. economy, particularly retail sales, consumer spending, and housing.

不过，企业陆续出炉的最新收益报告开始显露出美国经济企稳的迹象，尤其是零售额、消费支出和住房领域。

■But Hollywood executives fear the glut created by the recent spate of overproduction is going to be felt for at least a couple more years.

不过，好莱坞高层人士担心，最近几年电影多产带来的供应过剩问题在未来几年内还将继续存在。

■The WHO's current explanation for the spate of cases is simply that people are bringing chickens into their homes during the harsh Turkish winter.

世界卫生组织目前对这一大批病例的解释很简单：在土耳其的寒冬期间，人们把鸡带到家中。

■Chinese sociologists have described the spate of riots and protests in the country's deprived hinterlands as "anger-venting social incidents" brought about by years of hardship and inequality.

中国的社会学家形容此次大规模抗议是国家贫困中部人民因为多年来的艰难和不公产生的对抗的发泄。

■CCTV operators reported the men to police as acting suspiciously on Wednesday in King Street, Knutsford, where a spate of robberies have occurred.

中央电视台的播报员报道星期三被警方怀疑的男子是在纳茨福德地区国王街，那里抢劫时有发生。

■Some of the middle elements are wavering, may swing either left or right and, in the face of the current spate of wild attacks by the Rightists, may want to keep mum and wait and see.

中间派中有一些人是动摇的，是可左可右的，现在在右派猖狂进攻的声势下，不想说话，他们要等一下。

■He is particularly interested in the Chinglish he finds on a spate of signs, menus and the like in China.

他对在大量的招牌、菜单和中国的其他地方寻找发现中式英语有着特别的兴趣。

■As if to bear this out, the Swedish economy grew at a sizzling annual rate of 5.6% in the second quarter of 2006, enough to trigger a spate of interest-rate rises by the central bank.

似乎是为了证实这一点，2006年第二季度，瑞典经济呈现出极热的5.6%的年增长率，足以引发中央银行大幅提高利率。

■Yet even the day of worship can not normally slow down the spate of killings, shootings, stabbings and other miscreant turns that often transform the streets of major cities into battlefields.

但即便在祷告日里，那些杀戮、枪战、刀阵和流氓殴斗也不曾放缓脚步，大城市的街区一下子变成了战场。

■6.But judging by the most recent spate of statistics, it is revving up again nicely.

但根据最新的大量数据，其经济再一次良好增长。

■A fresh spate of killings hit Chechnya, in Russia's north Caucasus.

位于俄罗斯北部高加索地区的车臣境内，又发生一连串新的谋杀事件。

■There was for example Charles Brockden Brown, with his brief spate of Gothic novels.

例如查尔斯·布罗克登·布朗，在一个短时间内写过不少种怪小说。

■There was for example Charles Brockden Brown, with his brief spate of gothic novels

例如查尔斯?布罗克登?布朗，在一个短时间内写过不少种怪小说。

■The total deadlock produced a spate of rumour.

全面的僵持状态引得谣言四起。

■a spate of influenza in the winter

冬天的一阵流感.

■Om width jacquard warp-knitting window curtains, door curtains, coffee curtains, bath curtains, tablecloth,embroidery fabric,mesh cloth, headscarf, reps, washing bags, spate meshes, etc.

凭着卓越的信誉和优异的产品质量，本公司多年来赞誉如雪，深受国内外客户的信赖。

■The former is probable, he said, because of a recent spate of varicella outbreaks "even in highly vaccinated communities.

前者是比较有可能的，因为最近发生了一阵水痘流行，即使接受高度接种的族群里也有这种情况；

■Niki Lauda, the blunt-speaking former triple world champion, is unimpressed with the spate of politicking.

劳达的钝性讲前三届世界冠军，是不以为然的一系列政治活动。

■Beijing city officials launched a crackdown on unlicensed taxis in the capital following a recent spate of high-profile strikes by licensed cabbies in three Chinese cities and counties.

北京市开始开展打击“黑车”行动，此前中国其他三个市县爆发的出租车司机罢运事件引起了广泛的关注。

■In Northern Ireland more than 100 Romanians, mostly Roma (gypsies), fled their homes in south Belfast after a spate of racist attacks.

北爱尔兰百余名罗马尼亚人在受到一系列种族主义袭击后，逃离南贝尔法斯特。其中大部分为罗马（吉普赛）人。

■The Washington Post, too, experimented with a blog open to outsiders, and also shut it down after a spate of vandalism.

华盛顿邮报也试过建立一个向公众开放的博客，但最终也是因为汪达尔主义的破坏而被迫关闭。

■Even before a recent spate of shootings, new statistics showed that the murder rate on college campuses almost doubled in 2000.

即使在最近发生的一连串的枪击事件之前，新的数据也表明了大学校园的谋杀率在2000年几乎翻了一番。

■Heartened by a spate of relatively upbeat reports, economists have become increasingly convinced the recession will lift in the second half of the year.

受大量乐观的报告影响，经济学家们对于经济衰退在今年下半年恢复的信心大增。

■But given that we do have such a complete picture, it seems odd that in the spate of recent publishing no single definitive account has emerged.

可是尽管我们确已有这样一部完满的影片，最近出版的众多书籍却没有一本对此事作出明确的叙述，令人好生奇怪。

■"We know who is behind the spate of misinformation and why they are doing it -- to discredit granite and push the sales of quartz-based synthetic stone countertops," Hogan said.

吉姆说：“我们知道是谁在散布这些虚假的消息以及他们为什么要这么做。他们这么做的目的是要摧毁人们对花岗岩的信任，并推动人工台面板的销售。

■A spate of defensive injuries have forced Juve into the market and after asking Udinese about Cesare Natali, the Bianconeri have also made enquiries about taking Fiorentina's Gamberini on-loan to the end of this season.

后防大面积的伤病迫使尤文进入转会市场，继乌迪内斯的纳塔利后,斑马军团也已经向佛罗伦萨询问了租借甘贝里尼到本赛季结束.

■Tuesday's assault by gunmen on the facility killed 65 Ethiopians as well as nine workers from China, making it the deadliest incident in a recent spate of violence aimed at Chinese firms in Africa.

周二的袭击造成了65名埃塞俄比亚人和9名中国人的死亡，是最近中资公司在非洲遭受的最黑暗的事件。

■It starts Friday and forecasters are predicting a spate of named storms.

周五起，预报员预测了一系列命名的风暴。

■Haniyeh said after meeting Fatah officials the two groups had agreed to work together to end a spate of fighting in the Gaza Strip between gunmen from both sides.

哈尼耶在会见了法塔赫两位官员后说,两个集团已经同意一起做工作,结束双方持枪人员在加沙地带发生大规模战斗。

■Columbia Broadcasting System and the American Broadcasting Company--introduce a spate of new shows of every description.

哥伦比亚广播公司和美国广播公司。这些电视网为人们提供了很多形形色色的节目，

■Suppliers to the three troubled Detroit-based carmakers sought to diversify after a spate of bankruptcies in 2005 and 2006. But their options are now more limited.

在2005年和2006年一系列破产浪潮之后，为底特律3家陷入困境的汽车生产商提供零配件的供应商们也在寻求分散风险。但它们的选择现在更为有限。