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小词详解 | wisp
wisp 英 [wɪsp] 美 [wɪsp]
How could you even answer that question, given that the precise impact of any given wisp of greenhouse gas is unknowable?
考虑到任何一缕温室气体的确切影响都是未知的,你又怎能回答这个问题呢?
——《经济学人》At first it was a wisp, but within minutes it had grown thicker, rippling down the hillside on violent winds.
起初它只是一缕,但几分钟后它就变浓了,在狂风的吹拂下沿着山坡起伏。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 一小束、一小片或少量的细或扭曲的东西
一把稻草/干草
a wisp of straw/hay她将眼睛上的一缕头发拨开。
She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.那个蓄有一绺长髯的男子把一群未经训练的新兵组织成了一支有战斗力的部队。
The man with a wisp of a beard had welded a bunch of untrained recruits into an efficient fighting force.
一缕轻烟在林间袅袅升起。
A thin wisp of smoke straggled up through the trees.
在这片辽阔的土地上,大漠孤烟、江南细雨,总让人思接千载、心驰神往;黄河九曲、长江奔流,总让人心潮澎湃、豪情满怀。
Across this vast expanse of land, wisps of smoke in deserts of the north and drizzles in the south invoke our fond memory of many millennium-old stories.
strand: a single hair or thin lock of hair tendril: something resembling a plant tendril, especially a slender curl or ringlet of hair shred: a strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger