spate
spate 英 [speɪt] 美 [spet]
n. 洪水；一阵；大雨；突然迸发
名词复数:spates
- A spate is a large number. If a spate of new coffee shops open in your neighborhood, it’ll be easy for you to stay wide awake. You’ll have easy access to plenty of caffeine.
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- n. 洪水；一阵；大雨；突然迸发
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1. So how should we take the spate of new green announcements from the world's major oil firms?
所以我们该如何看待这些世界主要石油公司发出的一连串绿色新宣言呢？
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2. Yet hopes are rising that the recent spate of deals might indicate a genuine turning point in the merger market.
然而希望正在出现，最近的收购潮或许意味着一个真正的拐点正出现在收购市场中。
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3. Not only is it unusual for the BOJ board to reject proposals from a governor or a deputy governor, the meeting also came alongside the release of a spate of bleak data.
不仅是日本央行委员会否决央行总裁或副总裁提议的情况十分罕见,此次会议前公布的的众多数据表现黯淡的情况也很少见.
- spate (n.) early 15c., originally Scottish and northern English, "a sudden flood, especially one caused by heavy rains or a snowmelt," of unknown origin. Perhaps from Old French espoit "flood," from Dutch spuiten "to flow, spout;" related to spout (v.). Figurative sense of "unusual quantity" is attested from 1610s.
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