snowballing

v.

（计划、问题等）滚雪球似地迅速增大( snowball的现在分词 )；根本不可能（做某事），机会渺茫；

1. He was hit by a volley of snowballs.
   他被一阵投来的雪球击中了。
2. We like having snowball fights in winter.
   我们喜欢在冬天里打雪仗。

1. The children snowballed each other.
   孩子们互相掷雪球。
2. Orders for the new product have begun to snowball because of our new ad campaign.
   由于我们的新的广告促销活动，新产品的订货单开始像滚雪球一样迅速增多。

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Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering
Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering
Systematic literature studies: database searches vs. backward snowballing
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Low fertility in humans as the evolutionary outcome of snowballing resource games
Sampling international migrants with origin-based snowballing method:: New evidence on biases and limitations.