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

• 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！
• The boys threw snowballs at me and before I came to my senses they ran away.
  那些男孩向我掷雪球，及至我定过神来时，他们已逃这夭夭了。
• We pelted our friends with snowballs.
  我们朝朋友扔雪球。
• In the winter the snowballs are packed with rocks.
  在冬天，雪球里嵌上了石块。
• Pelt sb with snowballs, stones, rotten tomatoes, etc
  向某人投掷雪球、石子、烂西红柿等
• They pelted each other with snowballs. ( in baseball) any strike or throw
  他们用雪球互相投击。（棒球）一击或一投
• 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。
• One of our favorite things to do as children was to roll snowballs down hills to see how much speed they could pick up.
  我们小时候最喜欢做的事情就是滚雪球下山，并看它能滚多快。
• Sometimes I make snowballs and throw them.
  我有时做雪球和扔雪球。