词汇 | spume |
释义 | spume noun[ U ] uk /spjuːm/ us /spjuːm/ white foam(= bubbles) on the top of waves in water: (尤指海浪的)泡沫,浪花 The overcast sky merged with the spume of the waves.乌云密布的天空与浪花融为一体。 Beyond the white spume of the breakers, you can sometimes see whales. Spume whipped up from the grey waves. A deep layer of spume hid everything but the mast of the ship. The waves smashed into the rocky coastline, creating instant waterfalls of white spume. Waves bore break breaker broke choppy comber crest dumper heavy lap overfall ripple roller roughness standing wave tidal wave tsunami wake wave spume verb[ I ] uk /spjuːm/ us /spjuːm/ If water or waves spume somewhere, they move there while producing foam (= bubbles): 起泡沫,起浪花 The sea was spuming over the harbour walls.海水拍打在港口的墙上,泛起层层泡沫。 Spray was spuming up from my surfboard. A 300 foot waterfall spumed below. During the great storm of 1756, waves spumed right across the island. When the hatches were opened, more water was sent spuming under the mill. Movement of liquids backsplash be dripping with somethingidiom brim brim over brim with something drip funnel leakage pour pour-over reinject reinjection respray ripple spate stem swash swill swirl swirling Examples of spumespume After the young man has had his last word expressing his spuming desires to leave language, comes neither silence nor void - but the text transformed into a visual object. All this in such dramatic contrast to the scene outside, for the windows showed only white-capped seas, spray and blown spume and wheeling, screaming gulls. I leave this question of title and terminology and come to the march of events which is taking place under all this froth and spume. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A northeaster picked up spume from high waves and deposited it as ice over the vessel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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