onslaught

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n. 突击, 猛击, 猛攻

发音

UK /ˈɒn.slɔːt/
US /ˈɑn.slɔt/
US /ˈɔn.slɔt/
/ˈɑn.slɑt/

词形变化

onslaughts 复数 onslaughts

别名

anslaight

教材释义与例句

名词

猛攻；突击

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fierce attack.

    猛攻

  2. 2.

    A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

    引申义

    They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

attack barrage bombardment onset outpouring onrush

上位词 3

trouble language operation

下位词 10

fire charge strike firing bombing diversion penetration blitz bombardment counterattack

部分词 1

assault

词源

From on- + slaught. Formed after Middle Dutch aenslag, aenslach, equivalent to aen + slag, although slaught corresponds to Middle Dutch slacht; slag is cognate with the English weaving term sley. Compare Dutch aanslag and German Anschlag.

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