第三人称复数：spates
名词
1. The river is in spate.
河水猛涨。
1. 洪水：spare 备件 | spate 洪水 | spatter 火山喷出物
2. 大量的：prate 闲谈 | spate 大量的 | creek 小溪
3. 泛滥：spatchcock 烹调的鸡肉 | spate 泛滥 | spathe 佛焰苞
4. 泛滥,洪水：spat小争吵 | spate泛滥,洪水 | spectacular惊人的,突出的
1. 大批，一连串，一阵(尤指令人不快之物)
A spate of things, especially unpleasant things, is a large number of them that happen or appear within a short period of time.
e.g. ...the recent spate of attacks on horses.
最近发生的一连串袭马事件
e.g. ...the current spate of scandals.
目前流传的大量谣言
2. (河水)猛涨，泛滥
When a river is in spate it contains a lot more water than usual and is flowing very fast.
e.g. The Thames was in spate, with flocks of Canada geese speeding downriver.
泰晤士河河水暴涨，成群的加拿大雁迅速游向下游。
1. The case is among a recent spate of marriages involving the very young reported in the media and by Saudi human rights groups.
2. But a spate of recent arrests has stirred cautious debate and raised awareness in Egypt, a conservative country where homosexuality is widely condemned as immoral.
3. The teachers'ethics code was introduced after a spate of cases involving teachers giving corporal punishment and using inappropriate language in class.
4. spate的反义词
4. The falling prices might suggest what traders call a selling climax, a spate of dumping that foreshadows a recovery.
5. And following a spate of suicide attempts - there have been 27 tries to date - military officials opened a mental health clinic for detainees.
6. A spate of opinion polls show the Democrats well ahead of Aso's LDP among voters, though close to 30 percent are still undecided.
7. A spate of serious colliery accidents have shocked the country this month, notably a gas explosion in a Shanxi coal mine that killed 47 miners.
8. Zhang is unsure if the spate of student suicides in May reflects a pattern or is just coincidental.
9. Two men and a woman from Columbia have been arrested in a spate of burglaries at luxury residential compounds during the past two months.
10. The automaker announced a spate of recalls but disclosed in 2004 it had failed to come clean in 2000 and had more concealed defects.
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noun
1. the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
Synonym: freshet
2. a sudden forceful flow
3. spate
3. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money
Synonym: batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew stack tidy sum wad