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upwelling

/uhp-wel-ing/US // ʌpˈwɛl ɪŋ //

上涌,上流,上升气流,上游

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of welling up: an upwelling of public support; an upwelling of emotion in his voice.
    • : Oceanography. the process by which warm, less-dense surface water is drawn away from along a shore by offshore currents and replaced by cold, denser water brought up from the subsurface.

Examples

  • Another big question is how convection in the mantle—the upwelling of hot rock—is affecting the crustal blocks’ motion on Venus.

  • It just happens that our latest offering is being released at the time of a terrible upwelling of violence.

  • That could show if upwellings are driving other continents apart too.

  • They might help show how much upwelling of the deep mantle drives a spreading of the Atlantic seafloor.

  • Sorrow in her was aroused by many a spectacle—an uncritical upwelling of grief for the weak and the helpless.

  • For that very reason he feels as never before a great upwelling of affection for all things around him, animate and inanimate.

  • "I'll have to tell him something," she thought with a sudden upwelling of feeling as regarded the seriousness of this duty.

  • But the mood passed away before a fresh upwelling of concrete resentment against the self-pampered pair at the Promenade window.

  • But the hollowness of Cally's speech had mocked the sudden sympathy upwelling within her.