英语释义

1. marked by a fast rate of motion, activity, succession, or occurrence

2. a part of a river where the current is fast and the surface is usually broken by obstructions —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction

3. happening in a short amount of time happening quickly

4. having a fast rate

5. moving quickly

6. very fast
a rapid current rapid progress

片语

Rock Rapids罗克拉皮兹

rapids zone急流区

Sauk Rapids索克拉匹兹

black rapids布莱克拉皮兹

LEAF RAPIDS利夫拉皮兹

STONY RAPIDS斯托尼拉皮兹

grand rapids大急流城（美国密歇根州西南部城市）

Dedar Rapids来自樟泉

rat rapids拉特拉皮兹

cedar rapids锡达拉皮兹市（美国城市）

Wacky Rapids动物漂流赛

英汉例句

• in january, parkers farm, inc. of coon rapids minnesota issued a total recall on all of their products regardless of 「sell by」 dates because of a potential listeria contamination.

  1月份，明尼苏达州coonrapids的parkers农场公司宣布召回全部产品（不管产品是否过期），因为这些产品可能受到李斯特菌污染。

• some waterfalls consist of a single, sheer drop, others include a more gentle cascade over rapids and still others involve a combination of the two (like angel falls).

  世界上有的瀑布只是一个单一、峻峭的突然下降，可是也有其他一些瀑布还包含着虽较平缓但仍超过急流的小瀑布，还有一些是以上两者类型瀑布的组合（像安赫尔瀑布）。

• watershed discovery: the river - with 350 times the flow of the thames - has channels, rapids and waterfalls

  这条河的水流量是泰晤士河的350倍，它有自己的河道、急流甚至瀑布

• the undersea river, which is up to 115ft deep in places, even has rapids and waterfalls much like its terrestrial equivalents.

  这条海底河流很多地方深达115英尺，甚至还有着和它陆地上的同类们非常相似的湍流和落瀑。

• white water is the foamy, frothy water in rapids and waterfalls.

  白水（whitewater）指的是急流，瀑布的泡沫，起泡沫的水。

• in trying to explain why, you just might discover your deepest beliefs about art – the stance you want to adopt on an unsteady log on the rapids of time.

  在解释为什么的过程中，你就会发现自己对艺术最深的执念——你对不规则的原木对时间的急流所采取的立场。

• actually, in my analogy, the rapids are the periods of marketplace transformation.

  事实上，按照我的类比，「急流」就是市场转变时期。

• the wwd lists inga falls, an area of rapids on the congo river, as the waterfall with the largest volume.

  世界瀑布数据库还列出位于刚果河上的急流区的因加瀑布（ingafalls）为世界上流量最大的瀑布。

• the laid-back brown's canyon run had wide open rapids with huge, fun wave trains.

  柔美的布朗峡谷有着开阔的急流，翻滚着巨大的波浪。

• in nepal, you can experience thrilling rapids and the beauty of the himalayas at the same time.

  在尼泊尔你可以同时体验惊险的急湍和喜玛拉雅山的美景。

• but the pain will seem like a small price to pay when you become the first person to jog across the rapids of the mississippi.

  但当你成为第一个跑步穿越密西西比河的湍流的人的时候，这痛苦只是小菜一碟。

• grand rapids has a river running through the edge of downtown with a pedestrian bridge that most days is really quite dead.

  大急流城内有一条贯穿市中心的小河，河上有一座人行天桥。