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 wading 添加此单词到默认生词本
adj. 涉水的

  1. The act or an instance of wading.
    跋涉涉水或艰难行走的动作或行为
  2. In the long March, our Red Army soldiers succeeded in wading through the marshland.
    长征中,我们的红军战士成功地涉过了沼泽地。


wading
[ noun ]
walking with your feet in shallow water
<noun.act>


Wade \Wade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wading}.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to
OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va?a, Sw. vada,
Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. {Evade},
{Invade}, {Pervade}, {Waddle}.]
1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.]

When might is joined unto cruelty,
Alas, too deep will the venom wade. --Chaucer.

Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. --Old
Play.

2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move,
sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

So eagerly the fiend . . .
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
--Milton.

3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed ?lowly
among objects or circumstances that constantly ?inder or
embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
--Dryden.

The king's admirable conduct has waded through all
these difficulties. --Davenant.


Wading \Wad"ing\,
a. & n. from {Wade}, v.

{Wading bird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Wader}, 2.

  1. No one can say if it is a sign of continuing fighting, because the last refugee crossed here three days ago, before Iraqi government forces took control of the road. Now, Iraqis are crossing farther north, swimming and wading through marshes.
  2. For that reason, the National Education Association, which has endorsed Democrats in the past three elections, is wading into Republican presidential politics for the first time.
  3. One hospital on the outskirts of Seoul evacuated its patients, and witnesses reported seeing some patients wading through waist-high flood water with belongings held over their heads.
  4. The Soviet president lived up to his reputation for spontaneously wading into crowds Sunday despite the presence of protesters whose chants competed with cheers from most onlookers.
  5. Firefighters, who in certain areas have been wading in hip-deep oil, tell of cars and trucks having to drive through six inches of oil on some roads.
  6. During the 1980s the range expanded to include every kind of outerwear, from hats to socks and all-in-one wading outfits.
  7. Omar Abakr Idris removes his shoes before wading through the knee-deep fetid water left behind by the worst rains on record in this desert capital.
  8. But that may not make life easier for banks like Abbey National and TSB which have been wondering about wading in. C&G wanted to be bought, its management is being allowed to retain control of the business and no branch closures are planned.
  9. A Coast Guard boat tugged Humphrey with a line as wading people pushed and nudged him until the whale was able to get loose at high tide.
  10. The alternative is flying to LaGuardia or Newark, and then wading through New York traffic to Kennedy.
  11. A search resumed today for two teen-age girls apparently swept away while wading in a rain-swollen creek in southern Ohio, and thunderstorms rumbled across north Texas, triggering tornadoes, hail and flash flooding.
  12. His salary is almost 145 times the salary of an average auto worker, while his company is wading in a sea of losses both in profit and market share.
  13. At the Everglades, hydrologists tinkering with water delivery for 10 years have been trying to re-create a natural rainfall-driven system they hope will bring wading birds, alligators, panthers, deer and fish to old haunts.
  14. Weary from a bruising battle over the federal budget, the Senate is wading into another fight over whether to renew strict anti-obscenity restrictions on the National Endowment for the Arts.
  15. On Monday, Hasbro Inc., the nation's largest toymaker, said it had agreed to purchase some of Coleco's assets and lines for $21 million, including the plastic wading and splashing pools and children's outdoor furniture lines.
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