snowball
- 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)
- vi.滚雪球般迅速增大(或趋于严重、变得重要等)
复数： snowballs 过去式： snowballed 现在分词： snowballing 过去分词： snowballed 第三人称单数： snowballs
snow n.雪 + ball n.球
snowballnoun
雪球
a ball that you make out of snow to throw at sb/sth in a game
a snowball fight
雪仗
滚雪球般发展的情形
a situation that develops more and more quickly as it continues
All this publicity has had a snowball effect on the sales of their latest album.
所有这些宣传对他们最新唱片的销售产生了一种滚雪球效应。
雪球鸡尾酒（含白兰地蛋酒和柠檬汽水）
a cocktail (= a type of alcoholic drink) that contains advocaat and lemonade
to have no chance at all
verb
V滚雪球般迅速增大（或趋于严重、变得重要等）
if a problem, a plan, an activity, etc. snowballs , it quickly becomes much bigger, more serious, more important, etc.
noun
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- snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
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- ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
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- ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
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- plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers;grows in sandy arid regions
- Synonym: sweet sand verbena Abronia elliptica
verb
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- increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
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- throw snowballs at
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All this publicity has had a snowball effect on the sales of their latest album .
所有这些宣传对他们最新唱片的销售产生了一种滚雪球效应。
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A snowball gathers as it goes on .
雪球越滚越大。
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The children pelted him with snowballs .
孩子们向他投掷雪球。
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Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs
一些年轻人开始相互投掷雪球。
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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。
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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。
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The number of signers of the petition for a new school snowballed .
要求增设新学校而签名的人像滚雪球似的越来越多。
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The little boys are snowballing .
那些小男孩在扔雪球。
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His business has snowballed recently .
他的买卖近来像滚雪球似的，越做越大。
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The boys were chucking snowballs at passing cars .
那些男孩子冲着汽车扔雪球。
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We also enjoyed the fun of having snowball fights .
我们还享受打雪仗的乐趣。
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Some kids were already there . We made some snowmen and rolled snowballs .
有些孩子已经在那里了。我们堆了一些雪人，滚了雪球。
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He has a snowball 's chance in hell of getting the job .
他基本不可能得到那份工作。
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There 's a snowball 's chance in hell that I 'm going to give you the money .
想让我给你这笔钱，压根不可能。
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An Illinois man left the snowballed streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida .
一个伊利诺伊州男人离开他已经开始下雪的芝加哥的家、要去南方的福罗里达州度假。
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She doesn 't have a snowball 's chance in hell of winning the race after falling on the last lap .
她在跑到最后一圈时摔倒了，因此她赢得比赛的机会渺茫。
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But they could also have a snowball effect .
但它们还可能产生雪球效应。
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Good ! Now we make another small snowball .
很好！现在我们堆另外一个小雪人。
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I like it very much , I like playing snowballs .
我非常喜欢雪，因为我可以玩雪球。
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Its move should also have a snowball effect .
摩根士丹利的举动应该还会产生滚雪球效应。
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If you have great investments early , the results can snowball .
如果你能提早进行重大投资，未来你的回报将如滚雪球般增长。
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What has the snowball effect got to do with motivation ?
雪球效应和动力有什么关系？
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Problems snowball and you have to constantly adapt to new situations .
问题像滚雪球一样越积越多，你必须不断适应新的情况。
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Feeling the satisfaction of having achieved something has a snowball effect .
成就所带来的满足感会带来雪球效应。
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An Algorithm of Restrained Conditions ″ Rolling Snowball ″ for Linear Programming
线性规划的约束条件滚雪球算法
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The little boys press wet snow hard to make snowballs .
这些小男孩把湿雪捏成雪球。
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Finally , we make another small snowball and put it on top of the other two .
最后，我们再做一个小雪球放在其他两个的上面。
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Methods Convenience sampling and snowball sampling were used to select respondents ;
方法用方便抽样法和雪球抽样法选取对象，用《同志心理与行为》问卷开展调查。
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We always play outside , have snowball fight , and make snow man .
我们一直都在外面玩打雪仗，堆雪人。
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Children press white snow hard to make snowballs .
孩子们将雪捏成雪球。
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