英语词汇“ground、swell”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

ground-swell

释义

ground-swell
A deep swell or heavy rolling of the sea, the result of a distant storm or seismic disturbance.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. iii, The agitation of the waters, called by sailors the ground-swell.1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast i. 2 The vessel..rolled with the heavy ground swell.1877Black Green Past. xxviii. (1878) 221 Crashing its way through the rolling waves of a heavy ground-swell.
b. fig. Usually with reference to mental or political agitation.
1817Coleridge Zapolya i. Wks. IV. 219 It is the ground⁓swell of a teeming instinct.1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 91 The religious world was rocking still with the groundswell that followed those stormy synods.1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 219 The deep-raking, ground⁓swell of passion, as we see it in the sarcasm of Lear.

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