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a. 湿透的

  1. The poster wouldn't stick even though I drenched it with glue.
    我涂了大量胶水,可那张海报就是贴不住。
  2. We were caught in the storm and got drenched.
    我们遇上大雨全都被浇透了。


drenched
[ adj ]
abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination
<adj.all>
drenched in moonlightmoon-drenched meadows


Drench \Drench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drenched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drenching}.] [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the
causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw.
dr["a]nka, G. tr["a]nken. See {Drink}.]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a
potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge
violently by physic.

As ``to fell,'' is ``to make to fall,'' and ``to
lay,'' to make to lie.'' so ``to drench,'' is ``to
make to drink.'' --Trench.

2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to
saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
--Dryden.

  1. Snow fell over the Rockies and the Plains today, and up to 7 inches of rain drenched southern Florida.
  2. The northwestern region has been drenched since annual monsoon rains began in July.
  3. In an interview last Thursday, Allen said his health had suffered since his players drenched him with icewater to celebrate a season-ending victory over Nevada-Las Vegas. "We couldn't afford Gatorade," he said, smiling.
  4. All we'll do is get wet." In many respects, the entire defense industry is drenched to the bone.
  5. The worst rain in decades drenched Texas on Thursday, chasing hundreds from flooded homes around Dallas and Fort Worth, closing highways and sending lakes surging over their dams.
  6. Corn and soybean futures prices closed sharply lower Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade as unexpectedly heavy showers drenched some of the driest croplands in Iowa.
  7. At once my pulse began to settle; my cells were drenched with lifeforce; I started to hum a hymn; I blessed the people around me. Have you seen highlife recently?
  8. A tropical depression 50 miles east of Miami drenched parts of the Bahamas Saturday, and hurricane experts predicted the poorly organized system would turn north Sunday.
  9. I even ate bread drenched in shoe polish.
  10. Rains drenched Manila late Sunday and early Monday.
  11. Thunderstorms drenched the East Coast today and winds blustered up to 66 mph in Kansas, while a mudslide closed an entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
  12. "It certainly does not have the dimensions of doom we were concerned about" after fire protection water drenched Columbia on Sunday, Forrest McCartney said in an interview.
  13. A dozen oil-fouled birds found on the beach were taken to a cleaning station, but half died, officials said. "They were completely drenched in the oil.
  14. Flooding was reported in New Boston, Texas, which was drenched by 3 inches.
  15. The more than four inches of rain that drenched the Florida peninsula also doused the biggest part of a 40-day-old fire in the Okefenokee Swamp.
  16. Snow pestered motorists in portions of Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming, and rain drenched the nation's northeast, but temperatures rose into the 70s in Texas and much of the lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday.
  17. Some villages, drenched with 17.6 inches of rain over three days, were virtually submerged and television footage showed only the tops of tile roofs surrounded by water.
  18. Locally heavy snow fell Monday around Lake Superior, more snow fell from the northern Rockies to the western Plains, and thunderstorms drenched parts of Florida.
  19. Torrential rains drenched eastern Nebraska, forcing the evacuation of the town of Platte Center, which has a population of 367, police said.
  20. Corn and soybean futures fell sharply on the Chicago Board of Trade as showers drenched some of the driest croplands in Iowa.
  21. The camera rarely leaves the four walls of the home and most sets are drenched in soft shades of gray.
  22. The wet-weather pattern that drenched parts of the upper Midwest over the weekend continued on Tuesday, bringing rain to the region's parched southern and western portions.
  23. Rain drenched areas in the central Plains and from northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania to the East Coast on Wednesday.
  24. Now, thanks to Mr. Amor, the fish repose in a tidy pavilion, shielded from the sun and drenched with tap water to keep from spoiling.
  25. Much of the Plains were expected to have a respite from the heavy rains and thunderstorms that have drenched the region recently.
  26. "The sands that were drenched with tears of despair are now drenched with our tears of love, victory, hope and unity," they read together.
  27. "The sands that were drenched with tears of despair are now drenched with our tears of love, victory, hope and unity," they read together.
  28. When you are in a Zodiac inflatable dingy and close enough to be drenched in the fine spray from a whale's blow-hole it is rather a different matter.
  29. He includes $600,000 to study tearing down the Hetch Hetchy reservoir to reclaim the drenched California valley as park land.
  30. Thunderstorms also brought high winds and rain over eastern Kansas, where winds gusted to 70 mph near Melvern Friday evening and 3 inches of rain drenched Emporia.
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