puddle

英 [ˈpʌdl]

美 [ˈpʌdl]

n.  水洼; 小水坑; (尤指)雨水坑

复数：puddles　现在分词：puddling　过去式：puddled　第三人称单数：puddles　过去分词：puddled　

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Collins.1 / BNC.12181 / COCA.9010

牛津词典

noun

• 水洼；小水坑；（尤指）雨水坑
  a small amount of water or other liquid, especially rain, that has collected in one place on the ground

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 水坑；小坑；水洼
  Apuddleis a small, shallow pool of liquid that has spread on the ground.
  1. The road was shiny with puddles, but the rain was at an end.
     马路上到处是水洼，闪着光，不过雨停了。
  2. ...puddles of oil.
     一摊摊油

英英释义

noun

• something resembling a pool of liquid
  1. he stood in a pool of light
  2. his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines
  Synonym:pool
• a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
  1. there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain
  2. the body lay in a pool of blood
  Synonym:pool
• a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry

verb

• eliminate urine
  1. Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug
  Synonym:makeurinatepiddlemicturatepisspeepee-peemake waterrelieve oneselftake a leakspend a pennyweewee-weepass water
• mix up or confuse
  1. He muddled the issues
  Synonym:addlemuddle
• make a puddle by splashing water
• make into a puddle
  1. puddled mire
  Synonym:muddle
• mess around, as in a liquid or paste
  1. The children are having fun puddling in paint
• work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
• dip into mud before planting
  1. puddle young plants
• subject to puddling or form by puddling
  1. puddle iron
• wade or dabble in a puddle
  1. The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard

双语例句

• Rain splashed into the puddle.
  雨水溅在水坑里。
• With a curse, she picked the papers up out of the puddle.
  她咒骂了一声，从水坑里捡起报纸。
• And when they met, I tell you, the audience and I were a puddle of tears.
  他和犯人见面的那一瞬间，我告诉你们，我们这些旁观者的眼泪夺眶而出。
• He stepped over a puddle.
  他跨过了一个水坑。
• As I reached the puddle, I was suddenly attacked!
  当我到达水坑的时候，我突然遭遇了袭击！
• Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a water puddle ahead on the path.
  在佐治亚州，我沿着一条穿过几个树林的小径行走，发现前面路上有一个水坑。
• I was wet and I must somewhere have stepped in a puddle.
  我浑身淋湿，而且大概在什么地方踩进过水坑。
• She used to make all these chocolate puddle puddings, you know, with the sauce underneath and all this sort of thing.
  她过去喜欢做巧克力夹心布丁，你知道吧，就是里面有巧克力酱之类的东西的。
• They turn in the skeins of white clouds like trash in a puddle.
  它们像水坑中的垃圾一样退缩成一缕缕白云。
• A puddle of water or a patch of mud may make them break a leg or sprain a knee.
  一汪儿水，一片儿泥，都可以教它们劈了腿，或折扭了膝。