snowballs

英 [ˈsnəʊbɔːlz]

美 [ˈsnoʊbɔːlz]

n.  雪球; 滚雪球般发展的情形; 雪球鸡尾酒(含白兰地蛋酒和柠檬汽水)
v.  滚雪球般迅速增大(或趋于严重、变得重要等)
snowball的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 雪球
  Asnowballis a ball of snow. Children often throw snowballs at each other.
• VERB (项目、运动等)迅速增长，滚雪球般增长
  If something such as a project or campaignsnowballs, it rapidly increases and grows.
  1. From those early days the business has snowballed...
     这个企业从早期开始就一直在迅速地发展扩大。
  2. The investigation snowballed from there and has since led to several arrests.
     从那里开始，调查范围迅速扩大，有几人已经被逮捕。

双语例句

• After the boys threw the snowballs they saw a large lady bearing down upon them from across the street.
  男孩子们投了雪球后，只见对面一个身材高大的妇女冲他们走来。
• Don't throw snowballs at me.
  不要用雪球扔我。
• Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs
  一些年轻人开始相互投掷雪球。
• Amy and Rudolf throw snowballs. They have lots of fun.
  艾米和鲁道夫扔雪球，他们玩的很开心。
• The little boys press wet snow hard to make snowballs.
  这些小男孩把湿雪捏成雪球。
• One of our favorite things to do as children was to roll snowballs down hills to see how much speed they could pick up.
  我们小时候最喜欢做的事情就是滚雪球下山，并看它能滚多快。
• He was hit by a volley of snowballs.
  他让一齐投来的雪球给击中了。
• Some were throwing snowballs to each other, others were making a snowman.
  在互相掷雪球，的在堆雪人。
• Comets are big, dirty snowballs that orbit our sun.
  彗星就像是围绕太阳转的巨大的，脏兮兮的雪球。
• The boys threw snowballs at me and before I came to my senses they ran away.
  那些男孩向我掷雪球，及至我定过神来时，他们已逃这夭夭了。