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]