- [uncountable]
large waves in the sea or ocean, and the white foam that they produce as they fall on the beach, on rocks, etc. 激浪；拍岸浪花 the sound of surf breaking on the beach 激浪拍岸的声音
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc1The children splashed around in the surf. 孩子们在浪花中嬉戏。 dolphins riding the surf 逐浪的海豚 the roar of distant surf 远处波涛的咆哮 The sea lions lie near the breaking surf off the beaches. 海狮躺在海滩上破碎的海浪附近。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crashing
- pounding
- big
- …
- ride
- break
- crash
- in the surf
- the roar of (the) surf
- [singular]
an act of going surfing 冲浪： 一种冲浪的行为He decided to go for a surf near Fremantle. 他决定去弗里曼特尔附近冲浪。 Sydney, surf capital of the world (= where the sport of surfing is very popular) 世界冲浪之都悉尼
Word Originlate 17th cent.: apparently from obsolete suff, of unknown origin, perhaps influenced by the spelling of surge.