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onslaught

noun
🔊/ˈɒnslɔːt/
🔊/ˈɑːnslɔːt/
 [countable, usually singular]
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  1. a strong or violent attack攻击；猛攻
    • His approach was met with a vicious onslaught.他的方法遭到了严厉的批评。
    • onslaught against/on somebody/something the enemy onslaught on our military forces敌军对我军的进攻
    • onslaught of something/somebody an onslaught of abuse一阵谩骂
    • (figurative) The town survives the onslaught of tourists every summer.每年夏天，这座小城都要熬过一段旅游者蜂拥而至的苦日子。🔊🔊
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    • She could not withstand such a sudden onslaught.她承受不了如此突然的攻击。
    • She unleashed a verbal onslaught on her critics.她发布了一系列言论攻击批评她的人。
    • the latest onslaught from the Russian team俄罗斯队发起的最后一次进攻
    • the relentless onslaught of modernism现代主义的持续盛行
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • sudden
    • initial
    • renewed
    • …
    verb + onslaught
    • face
    • resist
    • survive
    • …
    preposition
    • onslaught against
    • onslaught on
    • onslaught from
    • …
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the form anslaight): from Middle Dutch aenslag, from aen ‘on’ + slag ‘blow’. The change in the ending was due to association with (now obsolete) slaught ‘slaughter’.