pelt

1. N-COUNT The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. (動(dòng)物的) 皮

...a bed covered with beaver pelts. …一張鋪著海貍皮的牀。

2. V-T If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. 扔

Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs. 一些年紀(jì)稍輕的人開(kāi)始相互扔雪球。

3. N a blow 打擊

4. N speed (esp in the phrase at full pelt) 速度; 尤其在 at full pelt 中

5. V-I If the rain is pelting down, it is raining very hard. (雨) 猛烈地下[非正式] [usu cont]

The rain now was pelting down. 雨這時(shí)正嘩嘩地下。