词典释义：
atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer
雪
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we were trudging through deep snow 我们在厚厚的积雪中艰难地跋涉
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snows )the first snows of winter .冬天的头几场雪。
something that resembles snow in colour or texture, in particular
（在颜色、质地方面）像雪的东西，尤指：
a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal
（因干扰或信号差而导致）电视或雷达屏幕上出现的闪烁雪花。
〈非正式〉 可卡因。
a dessert or other dish resembling snow
似雪的餐后甜点；似雪的菜肴
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vanilla snow .香草冰激凌。
[with modifier]a frozen gas resembling snow
似雪的冷冻气体
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carbon dioxide snow .干冰霜。
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下雪
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it's not snowing so heavily now .现在雪下得不是那么大了。
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被雪封住（或困住）
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I was snowed in for a week .我被大雪困了一个星期。
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〈喻〉 （像雪花般）大量涌来
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in the last week it had snowed letters and business .上周信件和生意像雪花般涌来。
[with obj.]sprinkle or scatter (something), causing it to fall like snow
使（某物）像雪花般飘落，使洒落
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the ceiling is snowing green flakes of paint on to the seats .天花板上的绿色油漆片像雪花般纷纷洒落在座位上。
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〈非 正式，主北美〉 用花言巧语误导（或迷惑）
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they would snow the public into believing that all was well .他们会用花言巧语迷惑公众，使他们相信形势一片大好。
C. P., 1st Baron Snow of Leicester (1905—80), English novelist and scientist; full name
斯诺，C·P ，莱斯特城斯诺男爵（第一）（1905—1980，英国小说家，科学家，全名查尔斯·珀西·斯诺；最有名的作品是描写学术界道德困境的11卷本系列小说《陌生人和弟兄们》，及其讲稿《两种文化》［1959］ ）。
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snow someone under （常作be snowed under ） overwhelm someone with a large quantity of something, especially work （用大量事物，尤指工作）使某人忙得不可开交he's been snowed under with urgent cases ． 这些紧急的案子让他忙得不可开交
"Old English
