英语词汇drench的意思、翻译、用法及例句-英语用法大全

词组	drench
释义	drench Drench is often used with a complement introduced by in or with: • She was drenched in furs and diamonds —Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, 1964 • ... desserts drenched in brandy or Cointreau — Dwight Macdonald, New Yorker, 18 July 1953 • "... after detonation the ground-zero circle is drenched with fallout" —Don DeLillo, End Zone, 1972 • The sun went up in triumph and drenched the parkland with gold —Elizabeth Taylor, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 1956 When drench is used in the passive voice, by may begin the phrase: • She was drenched ... by compassion for the immense disaster of her sister's life —Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale, 1908 The locution drench to the skin, or drench one to the skin is occasionally attested in our files: • ... a thunderstorm which would have drenched them to the skin —Marcia Davenport, My Brother's Keeper, 1954 Particular contexts also allow drench to be used with on or from: • ... snow and sleet, which drenched cruelly down on little townships —Mollie Panter-Downes, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 1953 • Sometimes they ... make awful confidences, or drench us from sentimental slop-pails —Logan Pear-sall Smith, All Trivia, 1934
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