"Trygvason's Long Serpent bore, Grim gaping o'er the waves before, A dragon's head with open throat, When last the hero was afloat: His cruise was closed, As God disposed. Olaf has raised a bison's head, Which proudly seems the waves to tread. While o'er its golden forehead dashing The waves its glittering horns are washing: May God dispose A luckier close."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
Beneath the dark waves where the dead go down, There are gulfs of night more deep; But little they care, whom the waves once drown, How far from the litght they sleep. And dark though Sorrow's fearful billows be, They have caverns darker still. O God! that Sorrow's waves were like the sea, Whose topmost waters kill. -Anonymous. It was nearly noon when Harry awoke. The awakening came slowly and with pain. In all his previous experiences he had had no hint even of such mental and bodily exhaustion as now oppressed him.英文原著 · 《The Red Acorn》
But there's another grayness--Life behind one instead of before; the emotional--"
She stopped herself. This was not for Vere. "They're close in," she said, looking out of the window. She waved her hand. The big man in the stern of the boat took off his hat in reply, and waved his hand, too. The rower pulled with the vivacity that comes to men near the end of a task, and the boat shot into the Pool of the Saint, where Ruffo was at that moment enjoying his third cigarette. "I'll run down and meet Monsieur Emile," said Vere. And she disappeared as swiftly as she had come.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
and here and there, beyond the braes and meads, blue glimpses of the far-off summer sea; and all this told in a language and a metre which shapes itself almost unconsciously, wave after wave, into the most luscious song. Doubt not that many a soul then, was the simpler, and purer, and better, for reading the sweet singer of Syracuse. He has his immoralities; but they are the immoralities of his age: his naturalness, his sunny calm and cheerfulness, are all his own.英文原著 · 《Alexandria and her Schools》
Ah, listen through the music, from the shore, The "melancholy long-withdrawing roar"; Beneath the Minster, and the windy caves, The wide North Ocean, marshalling his waves Even so forlorn--in worlds beyond our ken - May sigh the seas that are not heard of men; Even so forlorn, prophetic of man's fate, Sounded the cold sea-wave disconsolate, When none but God might hear the boding tone, As God shall hear the long lament alone, When all is done, when all the tale is told, And the gray sea-wave echoes as of old!英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Like the Yaqui's, it could scarcely be named. But it was deep, husky, prolonged, terribly human in its intensity. It made Gale shudder and made his heart beat like a trip hammer. Mercedes again waved a white hand. The Yaqui waved, too, and Gale saw in the action an urgent signal. Hastily taking up canteen and rifles, Gale put a supporting arm around Thorne. "Come, old man. Can you walk?英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
I'm with Max, the only waves we get in Brooklyn are heat waves and crime waves.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Did you see? He just waved! He just waved!美剧 · 《Friends》
Yes. It's the apparent change in the frequency of a wave Caused by relative motion between the source of the wave and the observer.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
on the first wave, 15 on the second wave, a ground crew to load the gas on the helos.美剧 · 《The News Room》