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billow n.巨浪；如巨浪翻腾的东西v.（像巨浪般）汹涌；波动；使翻腾 (1) 熊熊烈火席卷森林。(2) 疾风劲吹，海浪汹涌。(3) 房门砰地一声关上了，窗帘被风翻卷着吹向屋内。 This word originally meant a wave, and that image should help you remember its current meaning too. The word usually suggests movement and growth, such as waves building and crashing. There are certain clouds that look like ocean waves, and so are called billow clouds. If you have a big shirt, the wind might make it fill with air and billow. Balloons are billowed when you inflate them. Billowing can also mean to move with difficulty — slowly.

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英 ['bɪləʊ] 美 ['bɪloʊ] (1) Billows of flame swept through the forest.(2) The wind blew hard and the sea was billowing.(3) A door shuts with a bang and curtains billow into the room. Something billows when there's a fluid or blowing motion, such as the air filling a curtain at an open window, or smoke billowing from a fire. 1[VERB 动词]（布制品）鼓起 When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.   [V]  [V out]  [V-ing]The curtains billowed in the breeze...窗帘在微风中鼓了起来。Her pink dress billowed out around her.她粉红色的连衣裙鼓了起来。...the billowing sails.鼓起的风帆2[VERB 动词]（烟或云）翻滚，滚滚向上 When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky.   [V prep/adv]  [V-ing]...thick plumes of smoke billowing from factory chimneys...工厂烟囱冒出的滚滚浓烟Steam billowed out from under the bonnet.引擎盖下喷出滚滚的蒸汽。...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke.烟雾缭绕3[N-COUNT 可数名词]腾起的一大团（烟、尘等） A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air.   [usu N of n]...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke.喷出滚滚黑烟的烟囱

英语单词	billow
英美音标	英 ['bɪləʊ] 美 ['bɪloʊ]
中文释义	n.巨浪；如巨浪翻腾的东西 v.（像巨浪般）汹涌；波动；使翻腾
英语例句	(1) Billows of flame swept through the forest. (2) The wind blew hard and the sea was billowing. (3) A door shuts with a bang and curtains billow into the room.
中文例句	(1) 熊熊烈火席卷森林。 (2) 疾风劲吹，海浪汹涌。 (3) 房门砰地一声关上了，窗帘被风翻卷着吹向屋内。
vocabulary简明	Something billows when there's a fluid or blowing motion, such as the air filling a curtain at an open window, or smoke billowing from a fire.
vocabulary扩展	This word originally meant a wave, and that image should help you remember its current meaning too. The word usually suggests movement and growth, such as waves building and crashing. There are certain clouds that look like ocean waves, and so are called billow clouds. If you have a big shirt, the wind might make it fill with air and billow. Balloons are billowed when you inflate them. Billowing can also mean to move with difficulty — slowly.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]（布制品）鼓起 When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. [V] [V out] [V-ing] The curtains billowed in the breeze... 窗帘在微风中鼓了起来。 Her pink dress billowed out around her. 她粉红色的连衣裙鼓了起来。 ...the billowing sails. 鼓起的风帆 2 [VERB 动词]（烟或云）翻滚，滚滚向上 When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky. [V prep/adv] [V-ing] ...thick plumes of smoke billowing from factory chimneys... 工厂烟囱冒出的滚滚浓烟 Steam billowed out from under the bonnet. 引擎盖下喷出滚滚的蒸汽。 ...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke. 烟雾缭绕 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]腾起的一大团（烟、尘等） A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. [usu N of n] ...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke. 喷出滚滚黑烟的烟囱

Billow Smoke Slowly Ed Ing Wind Curtains Air