| 单词 | rise |
| 释义 | rise I. intransitive verb 1. a. b. c. d. e. (1) (2) 2. < witnesses who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead — Acts 10:41 (Revised Standard Version) > 3. a. < the people of Boston rose and seized all of the Dominion officers who could be found — Viola F. Barnes > — usually used with against < the Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you — Deut. 28:7 (Revised Standard Version) > b. obsolete (1) (2) 4. a. obsolete b. < the audience rose to his verve and wit > 5. < when the committee rose on Friday the clerk had read through section 203 — Congressional Record > 6. a. < a pale sun rose in lowering skies > — opposed to set b. 7. a. < smoke rose quietly from cottage chimneys all through the valley below > b. < rise to heights unusual for other trees > 8. < the river rose rapidly with the heavy rains > < becomes an island each time the tide rises > < a blister rose at the burn > < bread dough rises > 9. < at a little distance above him rose a small butte — Oliver La Farge > < octagonal towers rise a story higher than the main body of the structure — American Guide Series: Texas > < a meeting place or assembly hall with rise — Sidonie M. Gruenberg > < between the valleys of the gorge rise miniature mountain peaks — American Guide Series: Louisiana > 10. a. < spirits rose as the danger passed > b. < members of his staff watched indignation rise in him — Stewart Cockburn > 11. < the curtain rose on a lovely set > < birds rose all around in alarm > 12. a. < a diver rose near him in the water > < the spring rises cool and fresh from great depths > b. < trout were rising hungrily > 13. of locked-up printing type a. b. 14. a. < his painting rose to a fresh expressiveness and revealed a shrewder, gentler insight > < rose to heights of passionate eloquence > b. < funds available for investment rose sharply — R.P.Edmunds > < cotton acreage rose over 50 percent — Americana Annual > c. < rose to the rank of brigadier general of cavalry when still in his twenties — J.H.Easterby > d. < the cost of paper rose > e. < her voice rose then in a shrill crescendo > 15. a. < his courage rose as difficulties multiplied about him > b. < the wind rose rapidly > < storms rose often to wild fury > 16. < then rose a little circumstance that was to have far-reaching results > 17. a. < search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee — Jn 7:52 (Revised Standard Version) > < great regimes rose, based upon the irrational and negative in man's nature — M.W.Straight > b. archaic 18. < wars had risen out of incidents more trivial — L.C.Douglas > 19. < a rumor rose in city hall circles that the mayor would resign > 20. a. < the river rises in the foothills > b. < great nations rise and fall > 21. < their ministerial leaders rose ably to the occasion with consummate theological arguments — American Guide Series: Connecticut > 22. transitive verb 1. 2. chiefly dialect 3. archaic Synonyms: < the fountain rose to a 6-foot spout > < she felt the color rising in her face — Anne D. Sedgwick > < the building rose a story at a time > < the balloon rose into the heavens > < the table rose from the floor and seemed to poise in midair > < the wave rose and crashed against the cliff > It is usually used in some idioms that refer to getting up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling position < awake and rise at dawn > < rise from a chair > or to objects as the sun, moon, or a mountain that seem to get up or lift themselves in this way < the moon rose at 10:35 in the evening > < stairways rising diagonally across the porch — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < cliffs around the bay rise steep from the waters — Leonard Lyons > or to a fluid under the influence of a natural force < the mercury rose steadily until the temperature was over 100 degrees > < in the flood the river rose five feet > arise is narrower in application and is used to indicate literal movement upward usually to getting up after a sleep; in figurative applications it is more synonymous with appear or come into existence < an apparition arose before us > < city after city arose — R.W.Murray > < an eager babbling arose from the shore — Kenneth Roberts > < a haze of dust arose — Melvin Van den Bark > ascend and mount carry a strong idea of continuous, progressive upward movement < ascend a mountain > < mount a long flight of stairs > < the smoke rose and ascended to the treetops > < after the initial rise the temperature mounted steadily > < ascend a stream in a canoe > < as the road mounted, the air became sharper — Joseph Wechsberg > soar, always suggesting the straight upward flight of a bird, therefore indicates continuous, usually swift ascent to high altitudes, literal or figurative < the flight of hawks is impressive … soaring in intricate spirals — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < snowy mountains soaring into the sky twelve and thirteen thousand feet — John Muir †1914 > < food items, the prices of which may soar or plummet — Carey Longmire > tower usually applies to things that attain conspicuous height through growth or building up, connoting extension to a height considerably above neighboring objects < peaks that tower in the distance — Laurence Binyon > < surrounded by mountains which tower thousands of feet higher — Tom Marvel > < great chimneys tower above its roof — American Guide Series: Maryland > < the great men tower over the young making their authority manifest in the land — H.J.Laski > rocket suggests the startlingly swift speed, usually upward, of a projectile < teal rocketed over the treetops — New Yorker > < prices have rocketed sky-high — Patrick Kent > levitate implies a force that causes something to rise through actual or induced buoyancy, usu., however, being associated with spiritualistic practices and illusory risings of a person or thing < had once levitated himself three feet from the ground by a simple act of the will — Katherine A. Porter > < in other experiments … with levitated tables — H.H.U.Cross > surge, often with up, suggests the heaving upward or forward of a large wave < water forced in by the ocean waves would surge up through it and trickle down the mountains — American Guide Series: Oregon > < strong emotions surged through him as he strode on — O.E.Rölvaag > Synonym: see in addition spring. II. 1. a. b. c. obsolete (1) (2) d. e. (1) < a rise of a tone or semitone > (2) f. (1) (2) < the rise of the river was six feet > g. 2. < with the rise of tin mining in more recent years, the community has once again regained its position of importance — P.E.James > 3. a. b. 4. a. < the ordinary rises and falls of the voice — Francis Bacon > b. chiefly Britain < five shillings a week rise from the first of January — Victoria Sackville-West > c. < the corn shortage that followed land expropriation caused a rise in corn prices — Virginia Prewett > < it had no concomitant provision for a tax rise — J.C.Ingraham > < a general rise in the cost of living — C.L.Guthrie > < a walkout, a fare rise — or both — appeared inevitable — New York World-Telegram > d. 5. a. < hopes for a rise in the road — American Guide Series: Florida > < a rise in the ocean bottom > b. < the road breaks suddenly over a rise — American Guide Series: Washington > 6. 7. < got a rise out of him > 8. 9. a. b. III. chiefly dialect variant of rice I |
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