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billow

英 ['bɪləʊ] 美 ['bɪlo]

解释

n. 巨浪
vi. 翻腾
vt. 使翻腾
n. (Billow)人名；(瑞典)比洛

※ 提供单词"billow"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

billow 鼓起

词源同ball, 球，鼓起。

英文词源

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.

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例句和用法

1. The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.: 一张张白帆随着微风舞动。

2. An angry billow almost swallowed that ship.: 怒涛几乎吞没了那条船.

3. A door shuts with a bang and curtains billow into the room.: 房门砰地一声关上了,窗帘被风翻卷着吹向屋内.

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

5. The smoke was beginning to billow into the room now - yellow, acrid fumes that made Elizabeth choke.: 现在,浓烟滚滚卷进屋内 —— 黄色辛辣的烟使得伊丽莎白透不过气来.