billow

billow

英 ['bɪləʊ]
　　美 ['bɪlo]

n. 巨浪
　　vi. 翻騰
　　vt. 使翻騰
　　n. (Billow)人名；(瑞典)比洛

n.(名詞)billow作“波濤”解時是詩歌用語，強調浪峰高。billow還可指如波濤般翻滾的煙、火、聲音等，這時常用復數形式。

中文詞源：

billow 鼓起

詞源同ball, 球，鼓起。

例句：

1. The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.
一張張白帆隨著微風舞動。

2. An angry billow almost swallowed that ship.
怒濤幾乎吞沒瞭那條船.

3. A door shuts with a bang and curtains billow into the room.
房門砰地一聲關上瞭,窗簾被風翻卷著吹向屋內.

4. He exhaled a billow of cigar smoke.
他吐出一股雪茄煙.

5. The smoke was beginning to billow into the room now - yellow, acrid fumes that made Elizabeth choke.
現在,濃煙滾滾卷進屋內 —— 黃色辛辣的煙使得伊麗莎白透不過氣來.