wave是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a way of greeting someone, telling someone to do something, or adding emphasis to an expression -- 揮（手）；招手，擺手（表示問候、指示或強調）

  • I waved to/at him from the window but he didn't see me. 我從窗口向他招手，可他沒看見我。

  • I was waving my hand like mad but he never once looked in my direction. 我瘋狂地揮手，可他連看也沒朝我這邊看一眼。

  • She was so annoyed she wouldn't even wave us goodbye/wave goodbye to us. 她極為惱火，甚至都不願向我們揮手道別。

  • She waves her hands about/around a lot when she's talking. 她說話時手總在比劃著。

  • You'll have to wait till the policeman waves the car on. 你得等著，直到員警揮手示意車輛可以繼續前行。

  • You can't just wave me away as if I were a child! 你不能就那麼揮揮手，像打發小孩子一樣把我趕走！

• 1 to move from side to side, or to make something move like this while holding it in the hand -- 揮舞，揮動；擺動，搖晃

  • The corn waved gently in the summer breeze. 穀物在夏日微風中輕輕擺動。

  • A crowd of people ran down the street waving banners. 一群人揮舞著橫額，沿著街道一路奔走而去。

  • He seems to think I can wave a magic wand and everything will be all right. 他似乎認為我只要揮一揮魔杖，一切就都會解決了。

• 2 If hair waves, it curls slightly. -- （頭髮的）捲曲，波浪捲

  • If she leaves her hair to dry on its own, it just waves naturally. 如果她讓頭髮自己乾的話，就會自然捲曲。

• 3 a raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially the sea -- （尤指海上的）浪，波浪，波濤

  • At night, I listened to the sound of the waves breaking/crashing against the shore. 夜裡，我傾聽著浪花拍擊海岸的聲音。

• 4 the action of raising your hand and moving it from side to side as a way of greeting someone, etc. -- 揮手道別

  • Give Grandpa a wave. 跟爺爺揮手告別。

• 5 a wave-like movement made by a crowd watching a sports game, when everyone stands and lifts up their arms and then sits down again one after another -- 人浪（指體育比賽中觀眾依次舉起手臂站起後坐下，如波浪一般）

  • The crowd did the Wave. 人群中做出了一個人浪。

• 6 the pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried -- 波，周波；震動

  • radio waves 無線電波

• 7 a larger than usual number of events of a similar, often bad, type, happening within the same period -- （常指壞事的）一波，一批，一陣

  • a crime wave 犯罪率的激增

  • The country was swept by a wave of protests. 這個國家在抗議浪潮中，幾近崩潰。

  • A new wave of job losses is expected this year. 預計今年可能會出現新一波的失業高潮。

• 8 A wave of an emotion or feeling is a sudden strong feeling that gets stronger as it spreads. -- （感情或情緒的）突發，高漲

  • A wave of panic swept through the crowd. 恐慌情緒在人群中��延。

• 9 a series of slight curves in a person's hair -- （頭髮的）捲曲，波浪捲

  • Your hair has a natural wave, but mine's just straight. 你的頭髮是自然捲，而我的卻直直的。