Avalanche

(noun.) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things; 'the program brought an avalanche of mail'.

(noun.) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain.

(verb.) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow .

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• Now the riving and fall of icy rocks clave the air; now the thunder of the avalanche burst on our ears. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I descended on the miserable man in an irresistible avalanche of indignation, and swept him from the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The avalanche had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The office of the Memphis Avalanche was in the same building. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That avalanche and the thunder, now, was really a little like Burke. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The Count, at last issuing from his dreadnoughtthreatened to overwhelm her with it as with an avalanche. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Dorothea's feelings had gathered to an avalanche, and there could be no further preparation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And as to contending for a reform short of that, it is like asking for a bit of an avalanche which has already begun to thunder. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I fell under that titular avalanche a torn and blighted thing. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Immense glaciers approached the road; we heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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