Swell
[swel] or [swɛl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo.
(noun.) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea.
(noun.) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor).
(verb.) expand abnormally; 'The bellies of the starving children are swelling'.
(verb.) cause to become swollen; 'The water swells the wood'.
(verb.) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; 'The music swelled to a crescendo'.
(verb.) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; 'The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son'.
英格拉姆編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
(v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
(v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
(v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
(v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
(v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
(v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
(v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
(v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
(v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
(v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
(v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.
(v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten.
(v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
(v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
(n.) The act of swelling.
(n.) Gradual increase.
(n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
(n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
(n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
(n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
(n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
(n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
(n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
(n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy.
(a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
巴雷特校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Dilate, expand, intumesce, grow larger or bigger (by expansion).[2]. Increase (by outward addition), augment, enlarge.[3]. Rise (as waves), heave, surge.[4]. Belly, be inflated.[5]. Strut, look big, put on airs, be puffed up.[6]. Be turgid or bombastic.[7]. Bulge, protuberate, swell out.
v. a. [1]. Dilate, expand, inflate.[2]. Enhance, heighten, aggravate.[3]. Puff up, make arrogant.
n. [1]. Swelling.[2]. Waves, billows.[3]. [Colloquial.] Fop, coxcomb, dandy, beau, exquisite, jackanapes, popinjay, man-milliner, man of dress, vain fellow.
乔恩錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Dilate, extend, enlarges, heighten, heave, enhance, rise, expand, increase,augment, protuberate, aggravate, amplify, distend
ANT:Contract, curtail, shrivel, diminish, lessen, retrench, reduce, collapse, fold,narrow, condense, concentrate
加勒特錄入
解釋/意思:
v.i. to grow larger: to expand: to rise into waves: to heave: to be inflated: to bulge out: to grow louder: to be bombastic to strut: to become elated arrogant or angry: to grow upon the view: to grow more violent: to grow louder as a note.—v.t. to increase the size of: to aggravate: to increase the sound of: to raise to arrogance: to augment the sound of:—pa.p. swelled or swollen (swōln).—n. act of swelling: a bulge or protuberance: increase in size: an increase and a succeeding decrease in the volume of a tone: a gradual rise of ground: a wave or billow or succession of them in one direction as after a storm: a distinct set of pipes in an organ enclosed in a case furnished with movable shutters which being more or less opened by means of a pedal produce a swell of sound: (geol.) an upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle: a strutting foppish fellow a dandy.—adj. fashionable.—n. Swell′dom the fashionable world generally.—adj. Swell′ing (B.) inflated proud haughty.—n. protuberance: a tumour: a rising as of passion: (B.) inflation by pride.—adj. Swell′ish foppish dandified.—ns. Swell′-mob well-dressed pickpockets collectively; Swell′-mobs′man a well-dressed pickpocket.
克劳德整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I begin to think I must be a swell in the Guards without knowing it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggotty seemed to swell and grow immensely large. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The small garrisons were drawn from the various towns and fortresses, and went to swell the main army. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was swollen and red. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- My eyes were red and swollen, and I said, Oh, Esther, Esther, can that be you! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He could not go to Lynchburg as ordered, because the rains had been so very heavy and the streams were so very much swollen. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Once, Mrs. Maylie was called away, and after being absent for nearly an hour, returned with eyes swollen with weeping. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Mary's face was all swollen with crying, and she burst out afresh when she saw Margaret. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Clara's swollen eyes shewed that she has passed the night in weeping. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The door opened again, and Topsy, her eyes swelled with crying, appeared, holding something under her apron. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- His chest swelled, and his legs got weak, and he was short of breath. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He bent his keen eyes upon me, and my uncontrollable heart swelled in my bosom. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The hysterical passion swelled in her bosom--her quickened convulsive breathing almost beat on my face, as she held me back at the door. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He was of a chuckle-headed, high-shouldered make, with a general appearance of being, not so much a young man as a swelled boy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It'll keep the swelling down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Miss Wade,' said the girl, with her bosom swelling high, and speaking with her hand held to her throat, 'take me away! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That makes the swelling and that's what weakens you and makes you start to pass. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It must be the swelling. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He had been wanting to do that all day and now he did it, he could feel his throat swelling. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But my heart swells when I think of Torquilstone and the lists of Templestowe. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Gusts and swells perpetually trouble the mariner's course; he dare not dismiss from his mind the expectation of tempest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If dough is left standing in a warm place a number of hours, it swells up with gas and becomes porous, and when baked, is less compact and hard than the savage bread. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Deeds of heroism also occurred, whose very mention swells the heart and brings tears into the eyes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- All along, and among, and above these crags dash and flash, sweep and leap, swells, wreaths, drifts of snowy spray. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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