pelt /pɛlt/ ( pelting, pelted, pelts )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. (动物的) 皮

  例：

  ...a bed covered with beaver pelts.

  …一张铺着海狸皮的床。

• 2. 

  V-T If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. 扔

  例：

  Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.

  一些年纪稍轻的人开始相互扔雪球。

• 3. 

  N a blow 打击

• 4. 

  N speed (esp in the phrase at full pelt) 速度; 尤其在 at full pelt 中

• 5. 

  V-I If the rain is pelting down, it is raining very hard. (雨) 猛烈地下 [非正式] [usu cont]

  例：

  The rain now was pelting down.

  雨这时正哗哗地下。