Billow
['bɪləʊ] or ['bɪlo]
解释:
(noun.) a large sea wave.
(verb.) rise and move, as in waves or billows; 'The army surged forward'.
(verb.) rise up as if in waves; 'smoke billowed up into the sky'.
(verb.) move with great difficulty; 'The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed'.
汉克整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
(n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
(v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
康妮手打
同义词及近义词:
n. Wave, surge, breaker.
整理:罗莎
解释:
n. a great wave of the sea swelled by the wind: (poet.) a wave the sea.—v.i. to roll in large waves.—adjs. Bill′owed Bill′owy.
整理:萨莎
例句:
- The sea, all of a sudden, began to roar and rise in billows, and there was a blow, as if all the artillery in the world had been at once discharged. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Below us rose and fell the billows of a buried sea. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
校对:罗尼