Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense, plural buckets, present participle bucketing, past tense, past participle bucketed
1N-COUNT (有提手的)桶,吊桶,水桶 A bucket is a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides. Buckets are often used for holding and carrying water. (有提手的)桶,吊桶,水桶
We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the door.
我们用一个吊桶从门外的井中打水。
The girls happily played in the sand and sea with buckets and spades.
A bucket of water is the amount of water contained in a bucket.一桶之量
She threw a bucket of water over them.
她把一桶水倒在他们身上。
2QUANT [QUANTof n-uncount/pl-n]大量Buckets or bucket-loads of something means a large amount of it. 大量 [informal]
They obviously have buckets of confidence.
很明显,他们信心十足。
They didn't exactly sell bucket-loads of records the first time around.
其实,他们第一次唱片卖得并不很多。
3N-PLURAL (涕泪)滂沱;(大雨)瓢泼 If someone cries buckets, they cry a lot because they are very upset. If it rains buckets, it rains a lot. (涕泪)滂沱;(大雨)瓢泼 [informal]
He was weeping buckets.
他正哭得稀里哗啦的。
The rain was still coming down in buckets when we went back out.
我们回去时,外面的倾盆大雨仍然下个不停。
4PHRASE [VERB inflects]蹬腿儿;咽气儿 If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died. 蹬腿儿;咽气儿 [informal]
➡ see also pailADJECTIVE | VERB + BUCKET | BUCKET + VERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤empty, full空桶;滿桶▸➤galvanized, metal, plastic鍍鋅的桶;金屬桶;塑料桶▸➤leaky漏桶▸➤champagne, ice香檳酒桶;冰桶▸➤paint, water油漆桶;水桶▸➤slop泔水桶◇a slop bucket full of scraps of food盛滿殘羹剩飯的泔水桶➤mop拖把桶▸➤fire滅火桶◇The sand had spilled from the fire bucket.沙子從消防桶裏倒出來。VERB + BUCKET➤fill裝滿桶◇She filled the bucket with fresh water.她給桶裏裝滿清水。➤carry提桶▸➤dump, empty, pour, throw倒空桶;傾倒桶裏的東西;扔掉桶◇She poured the bucket of dirty water down the drain.她把那桶髒水倒到下水道裏。BUCKET + VERB➤be full of sth, contain sth, hold sth桶裝滿⋯;桶裝着⋯▸➤overflow桶溢出PREPOSITION➤in a/the bucket在桶裏▸➤bucket of一桶⋯◇big buckets of popcorn and Coke大桶的爆米花和可口可樂◇a bucket of oats for the horses一桶給馬吃的燕麥PHRASES➤a bucket and spade (BrE) 一套桶和鏟◇The children ran down to the beach with their buckets and spades.孩子們帶着桶和鏟跑向海灘。➤mop and bucket(配套的)拖把和桶◇The cleaner put down his mop and bucket and sat down.清潔工放下拖把和桶,坐了下來。