英语词典 · 单词释义
wave
英 [weɪv] 美 [wev]
这里集中整理“wave”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- vi. 波动；起伏；挥手示意；摇动；呈波形
- vt. 卷（烫）发；向…挥手示意；使成波浪形
- n. 波动；波浪；高潮；挥手示意；卷曲
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: waves;第三人称单数: waves;过去式: waved;过去分词: waved;现在分词: waving;
助记提示
wave.............挥 舞..............挥动；飘扬
中文词源
wave 波浪
来自PIE*webh,转，前后移动，编织，词源抽web,weave。引申词义水波，波浪。
英文词源
- wave
- wave: English has two words wave, distinct in origin, which have grown to resemble each other over the centuries. The verb, ‘move to and fro’ [OE], goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *wab-, which also produced English waver [14] (borrowed from Old Norse vafra ‘move unsteadily’) and wobble [17]. The noun wave ‘movement of the sea’ [16] seems to be an alteration (under the influence of the verb wave) of an earlier wawe ‘wave’. This in turn probably went back to Old English wǣg ‘motion, wave’, a derivative of the verb which produced modern English wag.
=> waver, wobble; wag - wave (v.)
- "move back and forth," Old English wafian "to wave, fluctuate" (related to wæfre "wavering, restless, unstable"), from Proto-Germanic *wab- (cognates: Old Norse vafra "to hover about," Middle High German waben "to wave, undulate"), possibly from PIE root *webh- "to move to and fro; to weave" (see weave (v.)). Transitive sense is from mid-15c.; meaning "to make a sign by a wave of the hand" is from 1510s. Related: Waved; waving.
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
[Stevie Smith] - wave (n.)
- "moving billow of water," 1520s, alteration (by influence of wave (v.)) of Middle English waw, which is from Old English wagian "to move to and fro" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German wag, Old Frisian weg, Old Norse vagr "water in motion, wave, billow," Gothic wegs "tempest;" see wag (v.)). The usual Old English word for "moving billow of water" was yð.
The "hand motion" meaning is recorded from 1680s; meaning "undulating line" is recorded from 1660s. Of people in masses, first recorded 1852; in physics, from 1832. Sense in heat wave is from 1843. The crowd stunt in stadiums is attested under this name from 1984, the thing itself said to have been done first Oct. 15, 1981, at the Yankees-A's AL championship series game in the Oakland Coliseum; soon picked up and popularized at University of Washington. To make waves "cause trouble" is attested from 1962.
双语例句
- 1. I use the short-wave radio to get the latest war news.
- 我用短波收音机收听最新的战事新闻。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Amy lifted her arm to wave. "Goodbye," she called.
- 埃米举起胳膊挥挥手。“再见，”她喊道。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. A wave of immigrants is washing over Western Europe.
- 移民潮正席卷西欧。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He was frustrated by his inability to wave down a taxi.
- 连一辆出租车都打不到，他很沮丧。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He gave his imitation of Queen Elizabeth's royal wave.
- 他模仿伊丽莎白女王挥手致意。
来自柯林斯例句
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