英和和英

名詞

floodtime (複数形 floodtimes)

1. A time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded; the season when a river floods its banks.
   • 1922, Flora Annie Steel, “Nix Naught Nothing” in English Fairy Tales, Macmillan, p. 180,^[1]

     Now, on the way, he came to a big, rushing river, which neither he nor his army could cross, for it was flood-time and the water was full of dangerous whirlpools, where nixies and water wraiths lived, always ready to drown men.

   • 1944, Zane Grey, The Wilderness Trek, Chapter 28^[2]

     In good seasons the stream must have been a fair little river, and during flood time it had spread all over the flat.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, part 2:

     The storm that raged in him to-night could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained to-night, in this, John’s floodtime.