waves

英 [weɪvz]

美 [weɪvz]

n.  海浪; 波浪; 波涛; 汹涌的行动(或思想)态势; 心潮; 风潮; 涌现的人(或事物); 涌动的人(或物)
v.  挥手; 招手; 摆手; 挥臂; 挥手指引，挥手示意(方向); 挥舞，挥动(手中之物)
wave的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 挥(手)示意(或致意)
  If youwaveorwaveyour hand, you move your hand from side to side in the air, usually in order to say hello or goodbye to someone.
  1. Jessica caught sight of Lois and waved to her...
     杰茜卡看到了洛伊丝，就冲她挥手致意。
  2. He waved at the waiter, who rushed to the table...
     他冲服务员招了招手，服务员就急忙跑到桌边。
  3. He grinned, waved, and said, 'Hi!'...
     他咧嘴笑了笑，挥挥手说：“嗨！”
  4. Elaine turned and waved her hand lazily and left.
     伊莱恩转过身，懒懒地挥了一下手就走了。
  5. Waveis also a noun.
     
  6. Steve stopped him with a wave of the hand...
     史蒂夫摆摆手让他停下来了。
  7. Paddy spotted Mary Ann and gave her a cheery wave.
     帕迪看到玛丽·安后高兴地冲她挥挥手。
• VERB 挥手示意(方向);挥手指引
  If youwavesomeone away orwavethem on, you make a movement with your hand to indicate that they should move in a particular direction.
  1. Leshka waved him away with a show of irritation...
     廖什克恼火地挥手让他离开。
  2. He waited for a policeman to stop the traffic and wave the people on...
     他等着警察来让车辆停下，指挥人们前行。
  3. He waved the servants out of the tent.
     他挥手让仆人们退到帐篷外。
• VERB 挥舞
  If youwavesomething, you hold it up and move it rapidly from side to side.
  1. Hospital staff were outside to welcome him, waving flags and applauding...
     医院的工作人员都在外面一边挥动旗子一边鼓掌欢迎他。
  2. She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.
     她经常会提高嗓门，双手胡乱挥舞。
• VERB 飘动;摆动;起伏
  If somethingwaves, it moves gently from side to side or up and down.
  1. ...grass and flowers waving in the wind.
     随风摇曳的花草
• N-COUNT 波浪;(尤指)海浪
  Awaveis a raised mass of water on the surface of water, especially the sea, which is caused by the wind or by tides making the surface of the water rise and fall.
  1. ...the sound of the waves breaking on the shore.
     海浪拍岸的声音
• (头发的)波浪卷，鬈曲
  If someone's hair haswaves, it curves slightly instead of being straight.
• N-COUNT 冲击波
  Awaveis a sudden increase in heat or energy that spreads out from an earthquake or explosion.
  1. The shock waves of the earthquake were felt in Teheran...
     地震带来的冲击波在德黑兰也能感觉到。
  2. The blast wave crushed the breath from Neil, but he survived.
     爆炸冲击波震得尼尔喘不过气来，不过他还是得以幸存。
• N-COUNT (声、光、无线电等的)波
  Wavesare the form in which things such as sound, light, and radio signals travel.
  1. Sound waves, light waves, and radio waves have a certain frequency, or number of waves per second.
     声波、光波或无线电波等都有特定的频率，或者说是每秒的波数。
• N-COUNT (情绪的)突发，高涨
  If you refer to awave ofa particular feeling, you mean that it increases quickly and becomes very intense, and then often decreases again.
  1. She felt a wave of panic, but forced herself to leave the room calmly...
     她感到一阵恐慌，但还是强作镇定地离开了房间。
  2. A wave of sympathy for her swept Ireland...
     爱尔兰举国上下都同情她。
  3. The loneliness and grief comes in waves.
     孤独和悲伤不断涌上心头。
• N-COUNT (活动、行为的)爆发，浪潮
  Awaveis a sudden increase in a particular activity or type of behaviour, especially an undesirable or unpleasant one.
  1. ...the current wave of violence.
     目前的暴力浪潮
  2. ...an even newer crime wave.
     更新一波的犯罪风潮
  3. ...the shortages of bread, meat and gasoline that have hit Moscow in waves over the summer.
     这个夏天里莫斯科接连遭受了缺粮、少肉和汽油短缺的打击
• N-COUNT (突然涌向某处的)人流
  Awaveis a sudden increase in the number of people moving somewhere.
  1. A wave of immigrants is washing over Western Europe.
     移民潮正席卷西欧。
• 人群形成的波浪;人浪
  If a crowd of people do thewave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, then sits down again, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 Mexican wave


• See also:long wavemedium waveMexican wavenew waveshort-wavetidal wave

双语例句

• I'm going to be surfing bigger waves when I get to Australia!
  到了澳大利亚后我要去浪头更大的地方冲浪！
• He measured the speed at which ultrasonic waves travel along the bone.
  他测出了超声波穿过骨头的速度。
• His hair was slicked carefully into waves.
  他的头发精心地梳成了波浪状的卷发。
• Vast amounts of energy, from X-rays right through the spectrum down to radio waves, are escaping into space
  大量的能量，从X光直到无线电电波，都正被泄露到太空中去。
• The shock waves of the earthquake were felt in Teheran
  地震带来的冲击波在德黑兰也能感觉到。
• Under certain conditions, electrons can behave like waves rather than particles.
  在一定条件下，电子可以作波状运动，而不是粒子状运动。
• The news sent shock waves through the community that have continued to reverberate to this day.
  这则消息震惊了整个社区，直到现在还波澜未息。
• You can't hear waves of such a high frequency.
  如此高频率的声波是无法听到的。
• The waves rocked the boat.
  波涛使船摇晃。
• The loneliness and grief comes in waves.
  孤独和悲伤不断涌上心头。