undertow的意思|undertow的解释-里氏词典

离岸流
回卷
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undertow

[ noun ]

<noun.feeling>

his account had a poignant undertow of regret

<noun.event>

Undertow \Un"der*tow`\, n. (Naut.)
The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are
breaking upon the shore.

"We ran down to the beach and she was being washed out with a strong undertow.
But like her good friend Billie Holiday, McRae's sound phrasing and time are so arresting that the lyrics take on connotations that the writer never had in mind. Also, there is the powerful undertow of Monk's music.
The 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy was reported missing Saturday afternoon after he and a friend went swimming and were caught in the undertow.
Even some sound banks with federal insurance felt the undertow of fear.
Jeff Waldstreicher, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Boston, said that the waves and undertow were fierce up and down the coast.
The skill is that purile jokes - 'I bought a de-caffeinated coffee table' - are easily swallowed in the incessant flow, and that there is a sinister undertow which keeps you hooked.
An undertow prevented divers from going underwater and a strong surface current prevented the search tugboat from getting near enough to drag the river at that spot, he said.

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