英:[wɪsp]
美:[wɪsp]
英:[wɪsp]
美:[wɪsp]
复数:wisps
第三人称单数:wisps
现在分词:wisping
过去式:wisped
过去分词:wisped
wisplike (adj.)
词根:wisp
adj.wispy 象小束状的,纤细的;脆弱的
noun
a small handful (as of hay or straw)
a thin strip or fragment
a thready streak
a wisp of smoke
something frail, slight, or fleeting a wisp of a smile
a wisp of a girl
archaic will-o'-the-wisp
verb
transitive verb
to roll into a wisp
to make wisps of
a cigarette wisping smoke at the corner of his mouth—Raymond Chandler
intransitive verb
to emerge or drift in wisps
her hair began to wisp into her eyes—Mary Manning
14世纪初,“一把或一捆干草、草等”,用于燃烧、清洁或作为垫子; 可能来自一种未记录的古英语单词,与挪威语和瑞典语 visp “wisp”同源,起源不明; 有时被认为与 whisk 或中低德语和中荷兰语 wispel “一种谷物的度量衡”有关。意思是“薄膜状的部分”,最早见于1836年。
Noun Middle English
The first known use of wisp was in the 13th century
wisterianoun
any of a genus of mostly woody vines of China, Japan, and the southeastern U.S. that belong to the legume family and have leaves with numerous leaflets and showy blue, white, purple, or rose flowers in long hanging clusters
wisterianoun
any of a genus of mostly woody vines of China, Japan, and the southeastern U.S. that belong to the legume family and have leaves with numerous leaflets and showy blue, white, purple, or rose flowers in long hanging clusters
wispnoun
a small bunch of hay or straw
a thin piece or strand
a faint streak
a wisp of smoke
something weak, slight, or delicate
a wisp of a smile
wispnoun
a small bunch of hay or straw
a thin piece or strand
a faint streak
a wisp of smoke
something weak, slight, or delicate
a wisp of a smile
wispnoun
a small bunch of hay or straw
a thin piece or strand
a faint streak
a wisp of smoke
something weak, slight, or delicate
a wisp of a smile
1 A Communist had cut a wisp of black paper into a hero with sleeves like butterflies’ wings and with tassels and flags, which fluttered when you breathed on him.
2 But I know that if I see him, I’m going to lose the last wisp of peacefulness that Gramps gave me when he told me that it was okay to go.
3 Even now, wisps of the leaves’ cloying fragrance still suffused the air.
4 Her red hair, arranged in a flat pompadour, would begin to blow out in wisps from her hat.
5 According to one ABC News story, "a radiant, but wisp-thin Kate Middleton stepped into the public eye."
据abc新闻的一个故事称,容光焕发但显瘦弱的凯特走入了公众的视线。
6 Ralph blundered on, savaging himself, as the wisp of smoke moved on.
7 It took a few tries before a wisp of smoke curled up to signal the birth of a flame.
8 The sun was relentless and eternal: There was neither wisp of cloud nor whiff of breeze for relief.
9 Uhmma tucks a wisp of my long, straight black hair behind my ear and then puts her arm around my waist.
10 I block the scene so when we kiss, faces around us blur, a filtered lens diffuses the light, and a smoke machine blows gauzy wisps of gray across the floor.
11 For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air.
12 His legs were stilts, his eyes leaked water, his beard ended in wisps at the third button of his vest, his skin appeared pink and chafed.
13 A cousin lit some incense in a brass holder, and the new scent drifted in thin wisps of smoke toward the yellowed ceiling.
14 Already the pink had faded; it was being replaced by delicate mauve interlaced with cottony cloud wisps.
15 The ruby on the wildling’s wrist darkened, and the wisps of light and shadow around him writhed and faded.
16 Mother lifts her hair off her shoulders and blows at the wisps on her forehead.
17 A small wisp of cloud hovers in the sky wearing the moonlight like a silver dress.
18 Because I had no doubt, not one single wisp of uncertainty, that if he knew what I had just seen, Cate would spend the next few days bleaching my blood out of his shirt, too.
19 He stooped and examined the handful of its body—a wisp of bone and skin—a girl.
20 The bride’s cloak Sigom fastened about Lady Alys’s shoulders showed a bronze disk on a field of white wool, surrounded by flames made with wisps of crimson silk.
2 纤弱
3 群
gregarious school group college society sort string crowd pride bundle gang nest knot mob ensemble rout swarm rafter consort rookery caboodle shoal murmuration cete game lot community body band bunch troop cluster clutch flock clot skein boodle kaboodle Abelian group
5 一群
skit game number run lot body pack crop pride troop batch gang nest mob flock squadron horde brood posse bevy skein skulk covey the whole caboodle stock kit string crowd bunch tribe parcel boiling cohort platoon huddle gaggle rabble passel
6 掸帚
8 小把
13 一绺
15 绺
16 磷火
17 小扫帚