Ripple

(noun.) a small wave on the surface of a liquid.

(noun.) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value.

(verb.) stir up (water) so as to form ripples.

(verb.) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; 'babbling brooks'.

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• Those deep gray eyes rather near together--and the delicate irregular nose with a sort of ripple in it--and all the powdered curls hanging backward. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It was as though you had thrown a stone and the stone made a ripple and the ripple returned roaring and toppling as a tidal wave. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Sometimes, What was that ripple? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In outlining a ripple they have forgotten the tides. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Not the faintest suggestion of a ripple marred its shining surface. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• If we throw a pebble into a quiet pool (Fig. 90), waves or ripples form and spread out in all directions, gradually dying out as they become more and more distant from the pebble. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• One after another, the voices of business or pleasure died away; all on the boat were sleeping, and the ripples at the prow were plainly heard. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• If a pebble is thrown into a quiet pool, it creates ripples or waves which spread outward in all directions, but which soon die out, leaving the pool again placid and undisturbed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If the water in a pond is absolutely still, we get a clear, true image of the trees, but if there are ripples on the surface, the reflection is blurred and distorted. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The tiny ripples of the lake were warm and clear, they lifted their boat on to the bank, and looked round with joy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The poor bleeding heart was still, at last, and the river rippled and dimpled just as brightly as if it had not closed above it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Smiles rippled continuously over his fat face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• As it was given, the significant smile again rippled across Moore's quiet face. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She moved her head under his hand and smiled up at him and he felt the thick but silky roughness of the cropped head rippling between his fingers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It comes of flowing on so quiet, and of that there rippling at the boat's head making a sort of a Sunday tune. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mary had recovered, and she spoke with a suppressed rippling under-current of laughter pleasant to hear. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The blue waves of Lake Erie danced, rippling and sparkling, in the sun-light. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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