pelting

名词 pelting:

1. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
   同义词：rain

动词 pelt:

1. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
   同义词：pelt, bombard
2. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   同义词：pepper, pelt
3. rain heavily
   同义词：pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets

1. She was last seen pelting along the road as if devils were after her.
   有人最后看见她沿着道路一个劲地飞跑，好像魔鬼在追她似的。
2. I'm not going out there-it's really pelting down.
   我不去那儿了，雨实在太大了。
3. It was pelting with rain.
   大雨如注。
4. The rain was pelting down.
   大雨倾盆。

pelt.ing

adj.Archaic （形容词）【古语】
Paltry; petty:
没有价值的；小的：
例句：
.This land . . . /Is now leas`d out . . . /Like to a tenement or pelting farm.(Shakespeare)
.这片土地…／象一套房子或小农场一般…／现在已被租出.(莎士比亚)

来源：
Perhaps from dialectal pelt [trash]
可能源自 方言 pelt [废物]