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wisp

/wisp/US // wɪsp //UK // (wɪsp) //

缕缕,缕,缕缕缕,缕空

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.
    • : any thin tuft, lock, mass, etc.: wisps of hair.
    • : a thin puff or streak, as of smoke; slender trace.
    • : a person or thing that is small, delicate, or barely discernible: a mere wisp of a lad; a wisp of a frown.
    • : a whisk broom.
    • : Chiefly British Dialect. a pad or twist of straw, as used to rub down a horse.a twisted bit of straw used as a torch.
    • : a will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to twist into a wisp.

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Examples

  • Bumpy rides down La Ruta del Lechón, a stretch of highway known for its roast pork spits, wisps of smoke rising to the sky.

  • You could hear wisps of music and smell the earth, freshly turned over by spring worms, and there was a hint of something sugary in the air, something new.

  • You wouldn’t think sound could travel very well on Mars—what with the planet’s bare wisp of an atmosphere, which is just 1% the thickness of ours.

  • A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • Rosemary flitted about like a will o' the wisp, and finally went to the window, where she stood looking wistfully out.

  • As she left the wood she saw a big hay-stack, as firm and shapely of outline as a house, not a loose wisp anywhere.

  • A wisp of wheat was knotted round her neck for a necklace, and a perfect sheaf of it in her hair.

  • I was told that subsequent to that matter my will-o'-the-wisp was coming on here positively.