spate

美音：[speɪt] 英音：[speɪt]

简单释义：

n.一连串

网络大量；洪水；泛滥

变形：

复数：spates

完整释义：

1.大量
2.洪水,突然泛滥,猛涨;〔苏格兰〕倾盆大雨
3.时间
4.河水猛涨
5.突然爆发
6.涌来
7.暴雨
8.暴风雨

例句：

Share prices tumbled across the globe yesterday amid mounting fears over the financial health of banks and a spate of dividend cuts.
全球股市昨日全线下跌，因投资者对银行财务状况的担忧不断加剧，同时有一批企业减少派息。
He will probably need all his charm as he tries to draw a line under the crisis at France Telecom that was unleashed by a spate of suicides.
里夏尔可能需要施展其全部魅力，才能尽力为员工自杀潮给法国电信带来的危机划上句号。
For now, a spate of rough weather in the southern Mediterranean seems to have slowed the rate of new arrivals.
现在，一个在地中海南部恶劣天气一连串似乎减缓了新移民率。
Top Form and Tsuen Lee are not the only manufacturers worried about safety issues after this summer's spate of recalls.
今年夏天的召回风波后，并非只有黛丽斯和全利才担心安全问题。
Like Malo should not take over the investigation and present spate of homicide at the presence of his prize.
好像马洛不该接手这宗调查似的，接二连三的凶杀案专候他的大驾光临。
So even if the spate of bad economic news is now looking just a little less bad, it's still bad.
因此，即使眼下经济消息面看来不再那么糟糕，但依然不容乐观。
His highly image-conscious customers are bound to have been worried by the spate of horror stories about workers at Foxconn.
他那些具有高度品牌意识的顾客们正为那些铺天盖地的关于富士康员工们的可怕故事而忧心忡忡。
The team's recent slippage in the Bundesliga is due to a spate of injuries, which have put some of its best players out of action.
该俱乐部最近在德甲的排名下滑是受伤病所累，许多优秀的球员现在都无法上场比赛。

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