torrent: [17] Despite its firm connections with ‘water’, torrent comes from a source that meant ‘scorch, parch’. This was Latin torrēre, which also produced English toast and torrid [16] and is related to thirst. Its present participle torrēns was used metaphorically as an adjective of streams that ‘boil’ or ‘bubble’ because of their strong current, and it was in this sense that it passed as a noun via Italian torrente and French torrent into English. => thirst, toast, torrid
torrent (n.)
"rapid stream," c. 1600, from Middle French torrent (16c.) and directly from Latin torrentem (nominative torrens) "rushing, roaring" (of streams), also "a rushing stream," originally as an adjective "roaring, boiling, burning, parching, hot, inflamed," present participle of torrere "to parch" (see terrain). Extension to any onrush (of words, feelings, etc.) first recorded 1640s.
中文解释
1. torr- + -ent.2. It was used metaphorically as an adjective of streams that 'boil' or 'bubble' because of their strong current.3. => 就像火山迸发、喷发，火山岩浆、火山熔岩迸发、沸腾一样。4. 如今的含义是一种比喻、引申、泛化。
实用例句
1. They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
他们被推来搡去，受到大肆的谩骂攻击。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The field trip involved crossing a raging torrent.
实地考察时要穿过一条水流湍急的河。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The trip involved crossing a raging torrent.
旅途中要穿过一条水势凶猛的急流。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The stream had become a raging torrent.
小溪变成了一条汹涌的急流。
来自《权威词典》
5. After the winter rains, the stream becomes a raging torrent .