今天我们要学的词是 spate.
spate 的意思是泛滥的,常用的表达方式是spate of,指一阵的、一大批的。 UN Special Rapporteur Clément Voule is in Zimbabwe to assess the country's human rights situation, at a time when rights groups are worried about a spate of abductions of activists. 联合国特别报告员沃勒正在津巴布韦评估该国的人权状况,那里发生的一连串绑架活动人士事件令人权组织感到担忧。
The spate of executive orders issued by Texas governor Greg Abbott is aimed at preventing mass shootings after two recent massacres left the Lone Star State shaken. 德克萨斯州受到近日发生的两次滥杀无辜事件的震动,该州州长阿博特为防止大规模枪击事件而发布了一系列行政命令。