bucket
n
1 round open container with a handle for carrying or holding liquids, sand, etc (带提梁的)圆桶; 提桶
build sandcastles with a bucket and spade 用提桶和铁铲建造沙堆模型城堡. =>illus 见插图.
2 (also `bucketful) amount a bucket contains 一桶的量; 一满桶
two buckets/bucketfuls of water 两桶[满桶]水.
3 scoop of a mechanical shovel, dredger, water-wheel, etc (挖土机、挖泥机上的)铲斗; (水轮机上的)戽斗等.
4 buckets [pl]
large amounts (esp of rain or tears) 大量(尤指雨或泪)
The rain came down/fell in buckets. 大雨倾盆而下.
She wept buckets. 她泪如雨下.
5 (idm 习语) a drop in the bucket/ocean => drop1. kick the `bucket => kick1. bucket, v [I, Ip]
~ (down) (of rain) pour down heavily (指雨)倾盆而下
It/The rain bucketed down all afternoon. 瓢泼大雨下了一下午.
The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase.