单词 | spume |
释义 | spumeWord family nounspumescencespumeadjectivespumescentspumousspumy Oceanographyspume /spjuːm/ noun [uncountableU] literaryHEO the mass of bubbles that forms on the top of waves when the sea is rough 〔海浪的〕泡沫,浮沫 SYN foam Examples from the Corpus spume• As further proof of this there was a continuous drift of wind-blown spume shooting over us like blobs of candy floss.• The ridges are waves, the clouds spume, the houses small schools of square fish.• The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume, the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face.• Intense though Emily Dickinson was, Emily had never experienced the spume and spray of arterial blood. (1300-1400) Old French Latin spuma |
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