rise and fall，ups and downs，heave rolling，undulate，gurgitation ；

[例句] 狂风大作，海面上波浪起伏。 A gale was blowing and the sea was choppy.

[例句] 石油市场因当天来自日内瓦的报道出现了起伏。 Oil markets oscillated on the day's reports from Geneva.

hide，conceal，fly [lie] low，incubate，fallow；

[例句] 嘲笑声的背后潜伏着一种越来越强烈的不安。 Behind the mocking laughter lurks a growing sense of unease.

[例句] 科学家们知道癌症可能会潜伏多年。 Scientists know that cancer may not show up for many years.

[电] volt （电动势、电位差、电压单位） ；

[例句] 奥斯卡喝了伏特加后醉醺醺地跳起了脱衣舞。 Oscar, much the worse for vodka, did a striptease.

[例句] 塔格特思忖着是否再要一杯双份伏特加。 Taggart debated whether to have yet another double vodka.

ambush，lie in wait，hide，lie low，ambuscade；

[例句] 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里. The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods.

[例句] 我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人. Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.

ambush，ambuscade，still-hunt，waylay ；

[例句] 刚出首都，总统无人护卫的汽车就遭到了伏击。 The President's unescorted vehicle was ambushed just outside the capital.

[例句] 一名警察在一次伏击中中弹身亡。 A policeman has been shot dead in an ambush.

torpor，dormancy，hibernation，swoon ；

[例句] 熊蛰伏在穴中过冬. Bears hole up for the winter to go by.

[例句] 蛹蛰伏在土壤中，直到冬天它们才蜕变成蛾子飞出来。 The pupae remain dormant in the soil until they emerge as adult moths in the winter.

kilovolt (KV)，kv. ；

[例句] 他的车猛地撞到灯柱上，扯断了带电的电线，数千伏高压电流骤然通过车身。 Thousands of volts surged through his car after he careered into a lamp post, ripping out live wires.

[例句] 如果存在γ粒子, 可能产生几千伏的电位差. If gamma particles are present, potential differences of several thousand volts can be generated.

subdue，vanquish，tame ；

[例句] 他曾经降伏了她的本性,使她对他无比尊敬. He had subjected her nature to bow to him.

[例句] 认识自己, 降伏自己, 改变自己, 才能改变别人. Understand yourself, conquer yourself, change yourself, and then you can change others.

curl up，huddle up，lie with the knees drawn up ；

[例句] 他喜欢蜷伏着睡觉. He likes to sleep with his knees drawn up.

[例句] 眼睛亮晶晶的老鼠爬回它们的洞窟,怯生生地蜷伏在一起. Bright - eyed mice crept back to their tiny homes and nestled timidly together.

troops in ambush，ambuscade，ambush ；

[例句] 敌人将诱骗者一直追到伏兵所在地. The enemy chased the decoys down to the place of ambush.

[例句] 他怀疑有伏兵. He suspected an ambush.

a hint foreshadowing later developments in a story, essay, etc.，foreshadowing，an anticipatory remark in a story, an essay, etc. ；

[例句] 这就为巨变埋下了伏笔, 如果政治家们胆敢一试的话. That sets the scene for big changes, if politicians dare.

[例句] 作者使用伏笔去创造兴趣或设立悬念. Writers use foreshadowing to create interest and to build suspense.

couch，crouch，squat，stay down ；

[例句] 他们每个人都俯身贴近地面蹲伏着前进。 They walked in a crouch, each bent over close to the ground.

[例句] 一群秃鹫蹲伏在一具野牛的尸体上。 A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.

Voltaire (1694-1778, 本名 Franscois Marie Arouet, 法国启蒙思想家、作家、哲学家) ；

[例句] 伏尔泰是法国一位著名的讽刺作家. Voltaire was a famous French satirist.

[例句] 他精于人情世故, 在某些方面酷似伏尔泰. He was a man of much worldly wisdom, and in some ways resembled Voltaire.

mesorelief ；

[例句] 草在风中起伏波动. The grass waved in the wind.

[例句] 我们很快看到一片麦田在微风中起伏。 We soon see a field of wheat undulating in the breeze.

voodooism，voodoo ；

[例句] 他受到伏都教的诅咒. He's been the object of a voodoo curse.

[例句] 我想把它从他的上衣上摘下来, 像伏都教那样, 插进他的胸腔. I want to pluck it from his coat and plunge it, voodoo - style, into his chest.

[计] microvolt ；

[例句] 介绍一种微伏信号放大系统设计方法, 该系统主要由放大 、 滤波以及隔离输出三部分组成. Introduced a design of microvolt signal amplifier, which consists of amplifiers, filters and isolation.

[例句] 如果伏特作单位太大, 我们可用毫伏或微伏. Where the volt is too large a unit, we use the millivolt or microvolt.

voltage ；

[例句] 功率的瓦特数等于安培数乘以伏特数的积. Power in watts equals the product of amperes times volts.

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[例句] 他的腿被伏击者的子弹击中. He has been hit in the leg by a sniper's bullet.

weber，volt-line （磁通单位） ；

[医]wave ；