| 释义 |
wavelet|ˈweɪvlɪt|
[f. wave n. + -let.]
A little wave, a ripple.
1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 24 Like the vague sighings of a wind at even, That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea. 1856Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life, Amos Barton ii, The head, with its thin wavelets of brown hair, indents the little pillow. 1873Black Pr. Thule v. 77 The white wavelets that were breaking on the beach.
b. transf. and fig.
c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 360 You only hide it by foam and bubbles, by wavelets and steam-clouds, of ebullient rhetoric. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Baptist i. 3 The transcendent Intelligence which presides over the law and measure of every wavelet of the universal energy. 1879Macdonald P. Faber I. vi. 61 Slowly she rose through a sky freckled with wavelets of cloud. |