welter

英 [ˈweltə(r)]

美 [ˈweltər]

n.  杂乱的一堆
vi.  滚; 打滚; 浸; 浸湿

复数：welters　第三人称单数：welters　现在分词：weltering　过去式：weltered　过去分词：weltered　

GRE

BNC.18587 / COCA.23700

牛津词典

noun

• 杂乱的一堆
  a large and confusing amount of sth
  1. a welter of information
     一大堆杂乱的信息

柯林斯词典

• QUANT 杂乱的一堆
  Awelter ofsomething is a large quantity of it which occurs suddenly or in a confusing way.
  1. ...patients with a welter of confusing symptoms.
     有一堆疑难症状的病人
  2. ...the welter of publicity that followed his engagement.
     他上任后的一堆杂乱的宣传活动

双语例句

• In a welter of more than forty young people's blood I can barely see, hear or breathe, so what can I say?
  四十多个青年的血，洋溢在我的周围，使我艰于呼吸视听，那里还能有什么言语？
• Too Many aspiring champions, in the cruel welter of the training camps, had practised this Man-eating attack on him.
  过去在训练场的残酷战斗里，不知有多少雄心勃勃的拳手都在他身上练习过这种吃人的攻击。
• They will tell you how much skill and experience it takes to field countless questions and handle a welter of diverse personalities every hour of the day.
  他们会告诉你每日里要圆满地解答数不清的问题、接待难以数计的不同客户，这需要多少技巧和经验。
• In recent months, there has been a welter of speculation about how many toxic assets are sitting in eurozone banks.
  近几个月，市场对于欧元区银行手上有毒资产的规模有多大作了大量猜测。
• And through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars.
  尽管世界风云变换，你们的使命始终未变，神圣不可侵犯：打赢战争。
• The unled or misled welter of a commercial century-John Masefield.
  贸易世纪的缺乏领导的或被误导的混乱-约翰·梅斯菲尔德。
• They are buying the Chinese goods, says one US official of the welter of Chinese commercial activity.
  他们是在购买中国的商品，一名美国官员对中国的大量商业活动作出这样的评论。
• No, she didn't want her children raised in this welter of hate and uncertainty, of bitterness and violence lurking just below the surface, of poverty and grinding hardships and insecurity.
  不，她决不愿意让她的孩子们在充满仇恨和不安、酝酿着暴力和痛苦，陷于贫穷、苦难和危险的一片混乱之中成长。
• Certainly not the way G20 leaders fawned over Barack Obama while announcing a welter of measures largely irrelevant to the immediate problem of the global recession, including a clampdown on tax havens, bonuses and big hedge funds.
  当然不是20国集团（g20）领导人讨好奥巴马的方式，同时宣布了一大堆与全球衰退这一最紧迫问题几乎毫不相干的措施，包括打击避税天堂、奖金和大型对冲基金。
• It should be very interesting to watch the political sparks fly as the W3C tries to extract something coherent from this welter.
  观赏这样的政治争斗非常有趣，因为W3C可以尝试着从这种混乱中获取相关的利益。