snowball
n. 雪球, 果味冰霜卷, 滚雪球式的募捐法 vt. 向...丢雪球, 使滚雪球般增长 vi. 打雪仗, 滚雪球般增长
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教材释义与例句
雪球
a ball of snow that children make and throw at each other
掷雪球；滚雪球般增大
if a plan, problem, business etc snow-balls, it grows bigger at a faster and faster rate
释义与例句
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A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
雪球
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2.
A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
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Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
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A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
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A type of ice dessert: a snow cone.
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A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.
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To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
不及物The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
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To play at throwing snowballs.
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To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
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To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.
不及物 俚语 粗俗
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Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
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词源
From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.
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