wisp

英 [wɪsp]

美 [wɪsp]

n.  (头发、草等的)小缕，小绺，小把，小束; (烟、云等的)一缕
vi.  把…卷成小把一缕缕地飘动

复数：wisps　现在分词：wisping　过去式：wisped　

TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.20973 / COCA.13203

牛津词典

noun

• （头发、草等的）小缕，小绺，小把，小束
  a small, thin piece of hair, grass, etc.
• （烟、云等的）一缕
  a long thin line of smoke or cloud

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （毛发的）缕，绺，小把
  Awisp ofhair is a small, thin, untidy bunch of it.
  1. She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.
     她将眼睛上的一缕头发拨开。
• N-COUNT (烟、云等的)缕
  Awisp ofsomething such as smoke or cloud is an amount of it in a long thin shape.
  1. A thin wisp of smoke straggled up through the trees.
     一缕轻烟在林间袅袅升起。
  2. ...an occasional wisp of white cloud.
     偶尔出现的一缕白云

英英释义

noun

• a small tuft or lock
  1. wisps of hair
• a flock of snipe
• a small bundle of straw or hay
• a small person
  1. a mere wisp of a girl

双语例句

• I reached over toward the kitchen knives ( which I keep on the underside of the counter for cooking), but when I looked back, he was not solid anymore, but more of a wisp of a shadow figure.
  我赶忙伸手去拿刀子（我一直放在柜台下面准备做饭时用的），当我再转回身，他已经不象刚才那么清晰可见了，而是变成了一小束影子。
• Snakes, spiders, beetles, and lizards can survive here only because fog delivers a wisp of vital moisture as it rolls in from the ocean most nights.
  蛇、蜘蛛、甲虫与蜥蜴可以在这里生存仅仅因为雾气带来了夜间从海洋席卷而来的一小束重要的湿气。
• Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring away.
  即使一缕云彩我也不会把它带走。
• She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.
  她将眼睛上的一缕头发拨开。
• As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened.
  他们看到，在一缕烟的底部出现了一闪一亮的火光，随后烟越冒越浓。
• Is only a dim dream, or wisp passes afternoon sunlight? Too fearful, this kind of day, the illusion, was going to end.
  难道只是个朦胧的梦，还是一缕逝去的午后阳光？太可怕了，这种日子，梦幻的，将要结束了。
• A wisp of gray hair stuck out from under her hat.
  一绺灰白头发从她的帽子下露了出来。
• Lan was almost afraid to look at Yee, but Yee reached out a wisp of atmosphere in comfort.
  兰几乎不敢看夜，但夜反而放出了一团气雾来安慰兰。
• A wisp of hair straggled across her ear.
  一束头发散落在她耳朵上。
• She's just a little bitty wisp of a girl.
  她是一个很纤弱的小女孩。