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  1. 1急流、洪流；（比喻）一連串（言語、責罵等）；（口語）BT下載檔

    A torrent is a very strong, fast-moving stream of water, like a river in a heavy storm. It's often used figuratively for a huge, fast flow of something else — 'a torrent of questions,' 'a torrent of abuse' (a lot of angry words all at once). In computing, 'a torrent' also refers to a file shared through BitTorrent, a way of downloading files from many other users at once.

From the word’s history

From French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrēns 'burning, seething, roaring', from torrēre 'to parch'.

經法文、義大利文來自拉丁文 torrēns「滾燙的、奔騰的」。

Wiktionary

組成Probably from a Latin word meaning 'boiling' or 'burning' — describing a stream that rushes fast and hot after a storm.

同家族的字

  • torridshares the same Latin root, related to heat and burning

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

torrentnoun詞源 1/ˈtɒɹənt/

  • 1

    A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

    • Rain fell on the hills in torrents.
    • A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
  • 2

    A large amount or stream of something.

    • They endured a torrent of inquiries.
    • The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

torrentadj詞源 1/ˈtɒɹənt/

  • 1

    Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

    • Waves of torrent fire.

torrentverb詞源 1/ˈtɒɹənt/

  • 1

    To fall or flow in a torrent; to pour.

    • ... through the inflexible rain, each turn in the track revealed a new cascade, torrenting down the steep cliff of the hill. The weather was too wild for me to get to them. In good weather, they wouldn't exist.
    • Outside[,] rain was torrenting down, lightning and thunder heralded the arrival of a summer storm.

torrentnoun詞源 2/ˈtɒɹənt/

  • 1

    A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.

    • I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.

torrentverb詞源 2/ˈtɒɹənt/

  • 1

    To download in a torrent.

    • The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
    • They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.

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