Hailstone

(noun.) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm.

编辑:厄休拉

• My little morsel of human affection, which I prized as if it were a solid pearl, must melt in my fingers and slip thence like a dissolving hailstone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A man's life being to be taken and the price of it got, the hailstones to arrest the purpose must lie larger and deeper than those. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

校对:瓦珥