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

• It's fun rolling the snowballs about.
  滚雪球很是有趣。
• 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。
• I like it very much, I like playing snowballs.
  我非常喜欢雪，因为我可以玩雪球。
• Qiqi wants to have a snow ball fight. He throws a snowball into his friend's garden. "I've got lots of snowballs to throw at you." shouts Qiqi.
  奇奇想打雪仗。他把一个雪球扔进了他朋友的院子里。我要扔好多好多雪球给你。奇奇喊着。
• Don't throw snowballs at me, Danny!
  丹尼别朝我扔雪球！
• 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。
• We pelted our friends with snowballs.
  我们朝朋友扔雪球。
• The little boys press wet snow hard to make snowballs.
  这些小男孩把湿雪捏成雪球。
• 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。
• Some were already throwing snowballs and plastic bottles from the pavement.
  一些学生已经准备好投掷雪球和那些从大街上拣来的塑料瓶了。