单词 | tidal wave |
释义 | tidal wave (once / 7027 pages) n WORD FAMILY tidal wave: tidal waves USAGE EXAMPLESExperiencing Ludlam in his Off Off Broadway camp epic “Eunuchs of the Forbidden City” was like being hit by a delirious tidal wave. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) Kelly Harte, the district’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, says “staying ahead of the tidal wave of poverty” is her biggest challenge. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) Here’s the asterisk: As the show crested into a tidal wave of light and sound effects, I detached. Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) 1n an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide Hyper calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy an event resulting in great loss and misfortune moving ridge, waveone of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) 2n a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun Hyper moving ridge, wave one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) 3n an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon a tidal wave of nausea the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave a tidal wave of crime Hyper manifestation a clear appearance |
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