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An onslaught is a strong, fast attack - soldiers, or even sports teams, can launch an onslaught. But people also use it for anything that comes at you fast and hard and feels hard to stop, like 'an onslaught of bad news' or 'an onslaught of tourists in summer.' It usually sounds dramatic and a little negative.
猛烈攻擊；也可指（負面事物）大量湧來，例如排山倒海而來的批評
組成This word probably comes from an old Dutch word for a blow or a strike. The '-slaught' part is likely related to English words like 'slaughter,' which also comes from the idea of striking or killing.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
onslaughtnoun/ˈɒn.slɔːt/
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A fierce attack.
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A large number of people or things resembling an attack.
- They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.
- The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。