billow

英 ['b?l??] 美['b?lo]
  • n. 巨浪
  • vi. 翻騰
  • vt. 使翻騰
  • n. (Billow)人名;(瑞典)比洛

CET6+TEM8GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯

詞態(tài)變化


復數(shù):?billows;第三人稱單數(shù):?billows;過去式:?billowed;過去分詞:?billowed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?billowing;

助記提示


1. PIE root *bhelgh- "swell" => billow, belly, bolster, bulge, budget.
2. PIE root *bhelgh- "to swell," an extension of *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bale, belly, blow).
3. 諧音“碧浪”---- 聽說過碧浪洗衣粉吧----碧色的浪花、碧色的巨浪。

中文詞源


billow 鼓起

詞源同ball, 球,鼓起。

英文詞源


billow (n.)
1550s, perhaps older in dialectal use, from Old Norse bylgja "a wave, a billow," from Proto-Germanic *bulgjan (cognates: Middle High German bulge "billow, bag"), from PIE *bhelgh- "to swell" (see belly (n.)).
billow (v.)
1590s, from billow (n.). Related: Billowed; billowing.

雙語例句


1. The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.
一張張白帆隨著微風舞動。

來自柯林斯例句

2. An angry billow almost swallowed that ship.
怒濤幾乎吞沒了那條船.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. A door shuts with a bang and curtains billow into the room.
房門砰地一聲關上了,窗簾被風翻卷著吹向屋內(nèi).

來自辭典例句

4. He exhaled a billow of cigar smoke.
他吐出一股雪茄煙.

來自辭典例句

5. The smoke was beginning to billow into the room now - yellow, acrid fumes that made Elizabeth choke.
現(xiàn)在,濃煙滾滾卷進屋內(nèi) —— 黃色辛辣的煙使得伊麗莎白透不過氣來.

來自辭典例句