bucketing

1. [C]水桶 an open metal, plastic, or wooden container with a handle for carrying liquids

• cry buckets痛哭流涕
• give the bucket发出解雇的通知
• receive the bucket收到解雇的通知
• sweat buckets汗流如柱

• empty bucket空桶
• full bucket装满的桶
• wooden bucket木桶

• coal bucket煤桶
• fire bucket灭火水桶
• ice bucket冰桶
• metal bucket金属桶
• plastic bucket塑料桶
• water bucket水桶

• a drop in the bucket沧海一粟

bucket elevator斗式提升机；斗式运输机

bucket wheel杓轮；戽式链轮；戽斗水轮

bucket teeth戽斗齿；铲斗齿

ice bucket n. （餐桌上冰镇酒或饮料的）冰桶

grab bucket抓斗，挖泥抓斗；抓岩机的抓斗

kick the bucket死了；一命呜呼

water bucket水桶；排水吊桶

bucket wheel excavator斗轮挖掘机；戽头转轮挖土机

bucket conveyor[机械]斗式输送机

token bucket[计]令牌桶；令牌漏桶

ash bucket灰斗

1. Go and fill this bucket with water for me.
   去替我装满一桶水来。
2. He came down the hill carrying a bucket of water.
   他提著一桶水下山来了。
3. I knocked over the bucket and the water poured (out) all over the floor.
   我打翻了水桶，水流了一地。
4. They buy tickets by the bucket and sell them at a profit.
   他们买了很多票,并且再卖掉以获取利润。
5. if it rains in buckets, it rains very hard.
   如果下的倾盆大雨,说明雨下得很大。

1. The old car bucketed along at about thirty.
   那辆旧车以30公里左右的时速行驶。
2. The rain bucketed down.
   大雨倾盆。

1. The girl was bucketing water from the well.
   那姑娘在用桶从井里打水。