Welter
['weltə] or ['wɛltɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be immersed in; 'welter in work'.
(verb.) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way; 'The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours'.
黛比手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
(v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
(v. i.) To wither; to wilt.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
(n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
(n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
整理:辛克莱
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Wallow, tumble about, roll.
編輯:默里
解釋/意思:
v.i. to roll or tumble about to wallow about esp. in dirt: to lie in some floating substance.—v.t. to make way in a weltering manner.—n. a tossing about a state of turmoil.—adj. Wel′tering.
阿德拉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It provided the only hope of moral solidarity he could discern in the great welter of narrow views and self-seeking over which he had to rule. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From this welter of crime there presently emerged three leading figures. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Reason deals with universals, with general principles, with laws, which lie above the welter of concrete details. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He started up, and beheld his sister senseless on the earth, weltering in a stream of blood that gushed from her mouth. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
整理:劳拉