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cataract

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【醫】白內障

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–noun 
1. a descent of water 
over 
a steep surface; a waterfall, esp. one of considerable size. 

2. any furious rush or downpour of water; deluge. 

3. Ophthalmology. 
a. an abnormality of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens.
b. the opaque area. 
 

　
Benjamin is born of the armistice and is lovingly raised by a black attendant, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), at the rest home. An establishment awash in the gentility of the Old South, the place is ideal for a child who, with his bald pate, cataracts, deficient hearing and need for a wheelchair, fits right in with the other occupants.


。天乾物燥
Desiccate

。計量
Throttle

。降雨
cumulus
"cumulus" 積雲,堆積
nimbus
Buddy, I've been around the world Many times when I was a young [cumulus] nimbus cloud.【氣】雨雲
expedition
expedite
precipitate
to hasten the occurrence of, bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly
by a precipitate [closure] with this gentleman's proposal 
cataract 
deluge
with destruction
She was deluged with congratulatory [letters] 
freshet
small, quick overflow 
a freshet in an abandoned [watercourse] 
inundation
literary, of a great area of land
the inundation of thousands of [acres]
inundate
Kate is also [inundated] with the eulogy-writing duties, as she's the only one capable of such a task.
but it is peculiar that we should be inundated with so many perspectives of such a tumultuous and, sad to say, bygone era. 
spate
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring 
a spate of angry [words]
British. a flood or inundation, rainstorm 
This was one of the final films in the [spate] of screen adaptations of his work, which began with 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire. 
lagoon
And you, you dragged me around all those interminable galleries in Venice, blathering on about the miracle of the canals, and the flushing of the lagoon system, or some such nonsense. 潟湖
gurgle
flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The [water] gurgled from the bottle.
make a sound as of water doing this (often used of birds or of human beings): The [baby] gurgled its delight. 
No, the shot after all the gurgling, when you say: "I love you, too..." Why bother? It was fine. Except for the plane.
[Swishing, Gurgling] Oh, hi. Uh, my sister forgot her veil.
Certainly, they are trying for new [sonic] territory, bringing in [shards] of white noise, gurgling electronics, [raw] guitars, and [druggy] psychedelia, but these are just extensions of previously hidden elements of Blur's music.

drizzle
Toward the end, Miss Lebrun has one long [drizzling] aria of remorse—about the futility of sex without love. 
sleet
An [icy] sleet was beginning to fall. 凍雨,雨夾雪,雨淞
flurry
a light, brief shower of snow or gust of wind, fluster
Dominating the screen in a [flurry] of aggressive method acting, Gallo makes no attempt to make his hateful loser of a protagonist the least bit sympathetic
avalanche
We received an avalanche of [inquiries]
She was avalanched with [invitations]
blizzard
There was a blizzard of [emails] going back and forth. 
slosh
splash or move through water, mud, or slush
(of a liquid) to move about actively within a container
Who wants to see Johnny Depp solve a murder related to a family full of [in]fighting crazies while getting slosh[ed] at ten in the morning? 
sloshed
You look sort of sloshed. Fighting fire with fire.【俚】喝醉酒的
slush
[romantic] slush
In the [snow] and [slush] of New Jersey
thaw
TJ set the trailer on fire. He didn't mean to, but the pipes froze, so he took out that damn torch, which I told him not to touch when I wasn't there, and he thawed them out. 
Somehow we stagger through, Sunday. By the time we drove Margot to the station late Monday afternoon, she and Lloyd had thawed out, to the extent of being civil to each other. 
And in Argentina, a glacier lake, and in the spring when the thaw comes on, these huge blocks of ice, I mean huge, the size of apartment buildings, come sliding off the glacier into the lake and then your heart is pounding out of your chest, it's terrifying.
What was your first childhood memory? I don't have any. No, you don't. It's no accident that you don't. You were kept on [ice]. It wasn't until consec had trouble putting me away that they thawed you out.
When he and Jo—[initially] aloof, charming when [thawed]—awaken in the same bed after a friend's party, neither knowing the other's name, she's determined to do her walk of shame.
bobsled
bobsleigh
of this famous Italian prince and bobsleigh enthusiast.

popsicle
How 'bout some ice pops? Sweet popsicles. Popsicles here. We'll take two. Twenty yen, please.

dank
damp often chilly
a dank [cellar]
The dankest [dungeon] would be warmed in the sunshine of Bettie's smile or [crumble] under the force of her wink. 
A [dark], [dank] thriller with a much-imitated "shock" ending, Diabolique is a masterpiece of Grand Guignol suspense.
Cinematographer Tom Richmond's [muted] color scheme [externalizes] the dank emptiness of his subjects' souls, effectively projecting their despair [onto] the surroundings they inhabit, and [rendering] the scenes with Roth's dying mother and conflicted father heart-[wrenchingly] real.
damper
His [glum] mood put a [damper] on their party.
Mol comes dazzlingly alive in color in a way she doesn't in B&W, which increasingly [puts] a mild damper on the predominantly shades-of-gray picture. 
dapper
He looked very dapper in his new [suit]. 
to [walk] with a dapper step
The Ninth Gate stars a [solemn] and [dapper] Johnny Depp as a rare-book hustler

sodden
My shirt was sodden with [sweat]
It is sodden, [tacky] and [tinseled], in the fashion of an ugly southern town.
The announcement that James Frey, the author of the drink-[sodden] "A Million Little Pieces," also had the nerve to make stuff up is great news—a little more salt on the margarita’s rim.
soggy
Polanski's insistence on filming in [rugged] Northumberland and [soggy] Wales. 
As soggy, sentimental a story of a po' little white-trash gal as ever [oozed] from the pen of Tennessee Williams or out of the [vein]s of script-writers in Hollywood is pictured in Technicolor in Seven Arts' "This Property Is Condemned,"
drench
The sexuality which drenches the entire film possesses a great [buoyancy] and [spirit] in the first act, 

mildew
Let's go down to the courthouse and see the room that they locked Boo up in. My aunt says it's bat-infested, and he nearly died from the mildew. 霉,黴菌

hydraulic
operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion
[Hydraulic whirring] [Electronic beeping]








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