rainmaker

/reyn-mey-ker/US // ˈreɪnˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈreɪnˌmeɪkə) //

造雨者,炼雨师,造雨人,炼雨者

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
- : a person who induces rainfall by using various scientific techniques, as the seeding of clouds with silver iodide crystals from an airplane.
- : Slang. an executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, increase profits, etc.: The president has several rainmakers among his advisers.

The City Council did not greet the rainmaker as a liberator.
The Rainmaker, John Grisham April 1, 1995 The Rainmaker, John Grisham's sixth novel, took the summer of 1995 by storm.
I see rainmaker putting bad stuff into their sides with a little knife.
Has any utmost precision of barometer been able to drive the priest out of his prerogatives as rainmaker?
The last of the correspondents left on the evening of the day that Judge Thayer set the rainmaker to work.
But the wind was against the rainmaker; nature conspired to mock him before men as the quack that he was.
The town knew all about the rainmaker at work behind the shielding rows of tall corn in Judge Thayer's garden.

/reyn-mey-ker/US // ˈreɪnˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈreɪnˌmeɪkə) //

造雨者,炼雨师,造雨人,炼雨者

n.名词 noun

1
- : a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
- : a person who induces rainfall by using various scientific techniques, as the seeding of clouds with silver iodide crystals from an airplane.
- : Slang. an executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, increase profits, etc.: The president has several rainmakers among his advisers.

The City Council did not greet the rainmaker as a liberator.
The Rainmaker, John Grisham April 1, 1995 The Rainmaker, John Grisham's sixth novel, took the summer of 1995 by storm.
I see rainmaker putting bad stuff into their sides with a little knife.
Has any utmost precision of barometer been able to drive the priest out of his prerogatives as rainmaker?
The last of the correspondents left on the evening of the day that Judge Thayer set the rainmaker to work.
But the wind was against the rainmaker; nature conspired to mock him before men as the quack that he was.
The town knew all about the rainmaker at work behind the shielding rows of tall corn in Judge Thayer's garden.