wave

英 [weɪv]

美 [weɪv]

n.  海浪; 波浪; 波涛; 汹涌的行动(或思想)态势; 心潮; 风潮; 涌现的人(或事物); 涌动的人(或物)
v.  挥手; 招手; 摆手; 挥臂; 挥手指引，挥手示意(方向); 挥舞，挥动(手中之物)

复数：waves　过去式：waved　现在分词：waving　过去分词：waved　第三人称单数：waves　

高考CET4CET6考研IELTS

Oxford 3000 / Collins.4 / BNC.1586 / COCA.1398

同义词辨析

wavebreakerrippleroller【导航词义：波浪】

短语用例

wave sth↔aside/away

• 对…置之不理；不理会
  to not accept sth because you do not think it is necessary or important

wave sth/sb↔down

• 对（汽车或司机）挥手示意停下；挥手叫停
  to signal to a vehicle or its driver to stop by waving your hand

wave sb↔off

• 挥手送别
  to wave goodbye to sb as they are leaving

习惯用语

n.

make waves
• 咋咋呼呼；大肆张扬
  to be very active in a way that makes people notice you, and that may sometimes cause problems
the crest of a/the wave
• 顶峰时期；极其成功；春风得意
  a situation in which sb is very successful, happy, etc.
ride a/the wave of sth
• 受益于某事；乘…之势
  to enjoy or be supported by the particular situation or quality mentioned
• Schools are riding a wave of renewed public interest.
  各校重新受益于公众的关注。

v.

like waving a red flag in front of a bulllike waving a red flag in front of a bullfly/show/wave the flag
• 表示并号召拥护自己的国家（或某组织、某思想）
  to show your support for your country, an organization or an idea to encourage or persuade others to do the same

牛津词典

noun

水 of water
• 海浪；波浪；波涛
  a raised line of water that moves across the surface of the sea, ocean, etc.
  1. Huge waves were breaking on the shore.
     巨浪拍打着海岸。
  2. Surfers flocked to the beach to ride the waves .
     冲浪者大批集聚到海滩去冲浪。
  3. the gentle sound of waves lapping
     波浪轻轻拍打的声音
  4. Children were playing in the waves .
     孩子们在海浪中嬉戏。
  5. Seagulls bobbed on the waves .
     海鸥随浪花一起一伏地漂浮在水面。
  6. The wind made little waves on the pond.
     风吹得池水起了涟漪。
活动；感觉 of activity/feeling
• 汹涌的行动（或思想）态势；心潮；风潮
  a sudden increase in a particular activity or feeling
  1. a wave of opposition/protest/violence, etc.
     反对、抗议、暴力等的浪潮
  2. a crime wave
     犯罪潮
  3. A wave of fear swept over him.
     一阵恐惧传遍他的全身。
  4. Guilt and horror flooded her in waves .
     歉疚和恐惧一阵阵涌上她的心头。
  5. A wave of panic spread through the crowd.
     一阵恐慌传遍人群。
大量 large number
• 涌现的人（或事物）；涌动的人（或物）
  a large number of people or things suddenly moving or appearing somewhere
  1. Wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead.
     一批又一批飞机从上空掠过。
臂 / 手 / 身体的动作 movement of arm/hand/body
• 挥臂；挥手；招手；摆手
  a movement of your arm and hand from side to side
• 挥臂；挥手；招手；摆手
  a movement of your arm and hand from side to side
热；声；光 of heat/sound/light
• 波；波状运动
  the form that some types of energy such as heat, sound, light, etc. take as they move
  1. radio/sound/ultrasonic waves
     无线电波；声波；超声波
头发 in hair
• 拳曲；波浪
  if a person's hair has a wave or waves , it is not straight but curls slightly
海洋 sea
• 大海
  the sea

verb

挥动手 / 臂 move hand/arm
• 挥手；招手；摆手；挥臂
  to move your hand or arm from side to side in the air in order to attract attention, say hello, etc.
  1. The people on the bus waved and we waved back.
     公共汽车上的人挥手致意，我们也向他们挥手。
  2. Why did you wave at him?
     你为什么向他招手？
  3. A man in the water was shouting and waving his arms around frantically.
     水里有个人大喊大叫，拼命摆动着双臂。
  4. My mother was crying as I waved her goodbye .
     我向母亲挥手告别时她哭了。
  5. My mother was crying as I waved goodbye to her.
     我向母亲挥手告别时她哭了。
• 挥手指引，挥手示意（方向）
  to show where sth is, show sb where to go, etc. by moving your hand in a particular direction
  1. She waved vaguely in the direction of the house.
     她含糊地朝房子的方向挥了挥手。
  2. ‘He's over there,’ said Ali, waving a hand towards some trees.
     “他在那儿。”阿里说着朝几棵树挥了挥手。
  3. I showed my pass to the security guard and he waved me through.
     我向保安员出示了通行证，他挥手让我通过。
• 挥舞，挥动（手中之物）
  to hold sth in your hand and move it from side to side
  1. Crowds lined the route, waving flags and cheering.
     人群沿路线排成行，挥舞着旗子欢呼。
  2. ‘I'm rich!’ she exclaimed, waving the money under his nose.
     “我发财了！”她在他的鼻子下面舞动着钞票喊道。
自由移动 move freely
• （一端固定地）飘扬，飘动，摇晃，起伏
  to move freely and gently, for example in the wind, while one end or side is held in position
  1. The flag waved in the breeze.
     旗子在微风中飘扬。
头发 hair
• 略呈波形；拳曲
  to curl slightly
  1. His hair waves naturally.
     他天生一头鬈发。
• 使…略呈波形；烫（发）
  to make sb's hair curl slightly
  1. She's had her hair waved.
     她烫发了。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 挥(手)示意(或致意)
  If youwaveorwaveyour hand, you move your hand from side to side in the air, usually in order to say hello or goodbye to someone.
  1. Jessica caught sight of Lois and waved to her...
     杰茜卡看到了洛伊丝，就冲她挥手致意。
  2. He waved at the waiter, who rushed to the table...
     他冲服务员招了招手，服务员就急忙跑到桌边。
  3. He grinned, waved, and said, 'Hi!'...
     他咧嘴笑了笑，挥挥手说：“嗨！”
  4. Elaine turned and waved her hand lazily and left.
     伊莱恩转过身，懒懒地挥了一下手就走了。
  5. Waveis also a noun.
     
  6. Steve stopped him with a wave of the hand...
     史蒂夫摆摆手让他停下来了。
  7. Paddy spotted Mary Ann and gave her a cheery wave.
     帕迪看到玛丽·安后高兴地冲她挥挥手。
• VERB 挥手示意(方向);挥手指引
  If youwavesomeone away orwavethem on, you make a movement with your hand to indicate that they should move in a particular direction.
  1. Leshka waved him away with a show of irritation...
     廖什克恼火地挥手让他离开。
  2. He waited for a policeman to stop the traffic and wave the people on...
     他等着警察来让车辆停下，指挥人们前行。
  3. He waved the servants out of the tent.
     他挥手让仆人们退到帐篷外。
• VERB 挥舞
  If youwavesomething, you hold it up and move it rapidly from side to side.
  1. Hospital staff were outside to welcome him, waving flags and applauding...
     医院的工作人员都在外面一边挥动旗子一边鼓掌欢迎他。
  2. She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.
     她经常会提高嗓门，双手胡乱挥舞。
• VERB 飘动;摆动;起伏
  If somethingwaves, it moves gently from side to side or up and down.
  1. ...grass and flowers waving in the wind.
     随风摇曳的花草
• N-COUNT 波浪;(尤指)海浪
  Awaveis a raised mass of water on the surface of water, especially the sea, which is caused by the wind or by tides making the surface of the water rise and fall.
  1. ...the sound of the waves breaking on the shore.
     海浪拍岸的声音
• (头发的)波浪卷，鬈曲
  If someone's hair haswaves, it curves slightly instead of being straight.
• N-COUNT 冲击波
  Awaveis a sudden increase in heat or energy that spreads out from an earthquake or explosion.
  1. The shock waves of the earthquake were felt in Teheran...
     地震带来的冲击波在德黑兰也能感觉到。
  2. The blast wave crushed the breath from Neil, but he survived.
     爆炸冲击波震得尼尔喘不过气来，不过他还是得以幸存。
• N-COUNT (声、光、无线电等的)波
  Wavesare the form in which things such as sound, light, and radio signals travel.
  1. Sound waves, light waves, and radio waves have a certain frequency, or number of waves per second.
     声波、光波或无线电波等都有特定的频率，或者说是每秒的波数。
• N-COUNT (情绪的)突发，高涨
  If you refer to awave ofa particular feeling, you mean that it increases quickly and becomes very intense, and then often decreases again.
  1. She felt a wave of panic, but forced herself to leave the room calmly...
     她感到一阵恐慌，但还是强作镇定地离开了房间。
  2. A wave of sympathy for her swept Ireland...
     爱尔兰举国上下都同情她。
  3. The loneliness and grief comes in waves.
     孤独和悲伤不断涌上心头。
• N-COUNT (活动、行为的)爆发，浪潮
  Awaveis a sudden increase in a particular activity or type of behaviour, especially an undesirable or unpleasant one.
  1. ...the current wave of violence.
     目前的暴力浪潮
  2. ...an even newer crime wave.
     更新一波的犯罪风潮
  3. ...the shortages of bread, meat and gasoline that have hit Moscow in waves over the summer.
     这个夏天里莫斯科接连遭受了缺粮、少肉和汽油短缺的打击
• N-COUNT (突然涌向某处的)人流
  Awaveis a sudden increase in the number of people moving somewhere.
  1. A wave of immigrants is washing over Western Europe.
     移民潮正席卷西欧。
• 人群形成的波浪;人浪
  If a crowd of people do thewave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, then sits down again, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 Mexican wave


• See also:long wavemedium waveMexican wavenew waveshort-wavetidal wave

英英释义

noun

• a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
  1. a wave of settlers
  2. troops advancing in waves
• a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
• the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
  Synonym:wavingwafture
• (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
  Synonym:undulation
• one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
  Synonym:moving ridge
• something that rises rapidly
  1. a wave of emotion swept over him
  2. there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed
  3. a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right
• a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
  1. a heat wave
• an undulating curve
  Synonym:undulation

verb

• set waves in
  1. she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair
• signal with the hands or nod
  1. She waved to her friends
  2. He waved his hand hospitably
  Synonym:beckon
• twist or roll into coils or ringlets
  1. curl my hair, please
  Synonym:curl
• move or swing back and forth
  1. She waved her gun
  Synonym:brandishflourish
• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  1. The curtains undulated
  2. the waves rolled towards the beach
  Synonym:rollundulateflap

双语例句

• The crisis has set off a wave of nationalist feelings in Quebec.
  这一危机已在魁北克激起了一波民族独立主义情绪。
• Hospital staff were outside to welcome him, waving flags and applauding
  医院的工作人员都在外面一边挥动旗子一边鼓掌欢迎他。
• He waited for a policeman to stop the traffic and wave the people on
  他等着警察来让车辆停下，指挥人们前行。
• Sound waves, light waves, and radio waves have a certain frequency, or number of waves per second.
  声波、光波或无线电波等都有特定的频率，或者说是每秒的波数。
• Jessica caught sight of Lois and waved to her
  杰茜卡看到了洛伊丝，就冲她挥手致意。
• He brushed by with a perfunctory wave to the crowd.
  他擦身而过，朝人群敷衍地挥了挥手。
• The blast wave crushed the breath from Neil, but he survived.
  爆炸冲击波震得尼尔喘不过气来，不过他还是得以幸存。
• A freak wave had buckled the deck.
  突然掀起的巨浪打弯了甲板。
• The shock waves of the earthquake were felt in Teheran
  地震带来的冲击波在德黑兰也能感觉到。
• He waved at the waiter, who rushed to the table
  他冲服务员招了招手，服务员就急忙跑到桌边。