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单词 tidal wave
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tidal wave
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtaɪ.dəl ˌweɪv/us
/ˈtaɪ.dəl ˌweɪv/

tidal wavenoun[C](SEA)

anextremelylargewavecausedbymovementof theearthunder thesea, oftencausedby anearthquake(= ashakingof theearth)
海啸
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tsunami
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Waves
  • bore
  • breaker
  • choppy
  • comber
  • crest
  • dumper
  • heavy
  • lap
  • overfall
  • ripple
  • rough
  • roughness
  • spume
  • standing wave
  • surf
  • tsunami
  • wake
  • wave
  • white horses
  • whitecaps
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tidal wavenoun[C](LARGE NUMBER)

asuddenlargenumberof things:
高潮，浪潮
atidalwaveofcomplaints抗议的浪潮
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Masses and large amounts of things
  • accumulation
  • any number ofthingsidiom
  • armload
  • backlog
  • bolus
  • flood
  • foam
  • logjam
  • many
  • motherlode
  • multi-million
  • multitude
  • pile
  • stack
  • the lion's shareidiom
  • tsunami
  • wave after/upon waveidiom
  • wedge
  • welter
  • wodge
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(Definition oftidal wavefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

tidal wave| American Dictionary

tidal wave
noun[C]
us
/ˈtɑɪd·əl ˌweɪv/
anextremelylargewavecausedbyviolentmovementof theearthunder thesea
(Definition oftidal wavefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftidal wave

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Over the last few years there has been atidalwaveof literature on the subject.
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A mass flight, a humantidalwave, some barefoot and half naked, some on the backs of mules and donkeys.
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But that is quickly crushed by thetidalwaveof post-impact evidence that is now presented.
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It is, rather, a purely musical response to the concept of the momentum built up and ultimately discharged by a largetidalwave.
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Coriolis terms are introduced into the equations governing the motion of a finitetidalwave.
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Their economic measures are swallowed by atidalwaveof opposition.
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The image of a 'tidalwave' dramatised the scale of displacement but also implied that refugees would engulf the host society.
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Unchecked violence led to a virtualtidalwaveof opposition by 1949.
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However, thetidalwaveof racism could not even tolerate this.
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These delegates opposed every attempt to engulf the states in atidalwaveof national authority.
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It adds yet another concentrated effort on a topic that has attracted a conspicuous, almost disproportionate, amount of scholarly attention, which has in turn stimulated atidalwaveof popularisations.
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As well as real crime, we have to deal with the perception of atidalwaveof crime.
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It is like trying to stop atidalwave.
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During the whole year there has been atidalwaveof short time.
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The whole country is submerged under atidalwaveof unemployment.
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