Undulation
[,ʌndjʊ'leɪʃən] or ['ʌndʒə'leʃən]
解释:
(n.) The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
(n.) A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
(n.) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.
(n.) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.
(n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
手打:撒迪厄斯
同义词及近义词:
n. Wave, fluctuation, ripple, rimple, wave-like motion.
埃米莉录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Wave, vibration, {[wwlling]?}, oscillation, bill
ANT:Standing, arrestation, rest, flattening, table-land, plain
手打:萨曼莎
例句:
- He waved his whip in the direction of the Bellomont acres, which lay outspread before them in opulent undulations. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Only a few children in Middlemarch looked blond by the side of Rosamond, and the slim figure displayed by her riding-habit had delicate undulations. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- They roamed at large on the undulations of Egdon, but in numbers too few to detract much from the solitude. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- She was soon ascending Blooms-End valley and traversing the undulations on the side of the hill. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Her head was high in ever alert attention; her long tail moved slowly in sinuous and graceful undulations. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- A tide of quiet thought now came gently caressing my brain; softer and softer rose the flow, with tepid undulations smoother than balm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost him among the undulations of the sea of ice. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Hi story of Winds and Sudden B last s and Undulations of the Air. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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