0 a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time -- （尤指不愉快的）大量突发事件
Police are investigating a spate of burglaries in the Kingsland Road area. 警方正在调查最近在金斯兰德路周边地区接连发生的多起入室盗窃案。
On his release in 1983, he committed a spate of armed robberies.
The spate of nationality is so strong that it is really impervious to reason.
Experience will show whether it is right or not, but we are hoping that the present spate of appeals is abnormal.
The canecutter chopping away at the crop bursts out in a spate of obscene words, a natural gush from the gut.
During the controversy about trading stamps we have had a spate of generalisations about housewives.
Is he aware that the spate of emotive newspaper articles is not helping confidence?
Her work comes in spates.
Recently, however, there has been a spate of criticisms of oral interviews, which have in their turn generated a number of research studies.
