[每日] undulate (v) 波動
Word of the Day (Monday September 22, 2008)
undulate \UN-juh-layt; UN-dyuh-\, intransitive:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/784PX
To move in, or have, waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating
air.
The actors' hands quiver and the poles undulate in the wind.
-- Peter Marks, "'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht Can Be
Fun.", New York Times, May 25, 1998
Rather than tuna, several hundred white-sided dolphins come into
focus, undulating crisply through the sea surface below.
-- Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean:Encounters Along the
World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
Most startling was the dancer's exposed, undulating abdomen, which
she could adroitly activate while hardly moving her feet.
-- Emily Wortis Leider, Becoming Mae West
Undulate derives from Latin undulare, from undula, a little wave,
from unda, a wave.
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