| 单词 | swell |
| 释义 | swell I. intransitive verb 1. a. < if I walked a hundred yards my ankles swelled up — Sydney (Austral.) Bulletin > < eight of my berries quickly disappeared, and the cheeks of the little vagabond swelled — John Burroughs > < mucilaginous materials which swell when water is added — Morris Fishbein > b. < up from the horizon swelled a supernatural light — O.E.Rölvaag > < it is in this length of the river that it swells to gigantic size — Tom Marvel > c. < a comfortable paunch swelled out beneath the buttons of his dinner jacket — Hamilton Basso > < the green slope swelled upward to the pear orchard — Ellen Glasgow > 2. a. < swells with pride and importance as he struts up and down — Martin Turnell > b. < the diver crew will swell around on the boat talking about different jobs they have been on — Richard Bissell > c. < looked down on so much sheer swelling around — Newsweek > 3. a. < the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul — Shakespeare > b. < her heart swelled with a suffocating sense of resentment — Anne D. Sedgwick > 4. a. < job opportunities swelled hugely in government — Daniel Bell > < the credit union's capital swelled to $110,000 — Frank Hamilton > b. < the cries swelled and died away — John Galsworthy > < the organ swelled to a climax > transitive verb 1. < it swells me to joyful madness — Walt Whitman > < he is swollen with pride > 2. a. < warm summer water … will quickly swell the planks and so close the seams — C.D.Lane > < a hide … is put through a liming process that swells it and loosens the hair — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > b. < rivers swollen by rain > < ten thousand springs and creeks and a dozen lesser rivers run … to swell the Sacramento — Julian Dana > < another little drop to swell the flood of misery — Nevil Shute > 3. a. < some large federal installation or project greatly swelled the school population — N.Y.Times > < nobles, landed gentry, merchants … swelled the demand for country houses — Bernard Smith > b. < the pealing anthem swells the note of praise — Thomas Gray > Synonyms: see expand II. 1. a. < this causes too much swell in the back of the book — Laurence Town > < a green bodice which fitted so snugly that the swell of her breasts was accentuated — T.B.Costain > b. (1) < the mid-Atlantic swell > (2) (3) c. d. e. 2. a. b. < the thing rolls on its antique springs with a slow, disquieting swell — Mollie Panter-Downes > < that sustained impressiveness, that booming swell, which becomes so intolerable — F.R.Leavis > 3. a. < a swell in population > < there is little dramatic swell into the tragic power that the end of the story demands — Edgar Johnson > b. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 4. a. archaic < a new necktie, nice shirts — you can imagine I cut quite a swell — Walt Whitman > b. < sketched himself as a … swell, in a top hat, a white silk scarf, and a chesterfield — Janet Flanner > < see quite a young swell come out in the latest fashion — Patricia M. Johnson > c. < a tony street where all the swells lived — J.T.Farrell > d. < a real swell on birds — H.J.Laski > < an agreeable melodist and a terrific swell at orchestration — Arnold Bennett > 5. III. 1. < I am too shabby … only swell people go to the park — Oscar Wilde > : socially prominent : distinguished < had a lot of swell social connections — Wilson Collison > 2. < staying at the swellest hotel in town > 3. < makes a swell impression and is hired — W.H.Whyte > < she was a really swell girl — W.F.Jenkins > < it's a miracle … I feel perfectly swell — W.S.Maugham > |
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