bucket
n
1 round open container with a handle for carrying or holding liquids, sand, etc (帶提梁的)圓桶; 提桶
build sandcastles with a bucket and spade 用提桶和鐵鏟建造沙堆模型城堡. =>illus 見插圖.
2 (also `bucketful) amount a bucket contains 一桶的量; 一滿桶
two buckets/bucketfuls of water 兩桶[滿桶]水.
3 scoop of a mechanical shovel, dredger, water-wheel, etc (挖土機、挖泥機上的)鏟斗; (水輪機上的)戽斗等.
4 buckets [pl]
large amounts (esp of rain or tears) 大量(尤指雨或淚)
The rain came down/fell in buckets. 大雨傾盆而下.
She wept buckets. 她淚如雨下.
5 (idm 習語) a drop in the bucket/ocean => drop1. kick the `bucket => kick1. bucket, v [I, Ip]
~ (down) (of rain) pour down heavily (指雨)傾盆而下
It/The rain bucketed down all afternoon. 瓢潑大雨下了一下午.