粵

浪long6潮ciu4

long6 ciu4làng cháo

English

  1. wave
  2. tide; wave
  3. tides
  4. tide; wave; movement

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 海水漲落而形成嘅起伏波浪(量詞:陣)
  2. 比喻一時形成,聲勢浩大嘅風氣或行動(量詞:陣/股)

Examples

  • 浪潮迭起

    tides arise repeatedly ----

  • 新浪潮電影

    films of the New Wave

  • 有人戲稱東歐共產主義破產及蘇聯解體嘅浪潮做「蘇東波」。 (jau5 jan4 hei3 cing1 dung1 au1 gung6 caan2 zyu2 ji6 po3 caan2 kap6 sou1 lyun4 gaai2 tai2 ge3 long6 ciu4 zou6 "sou1 dung1 bo1".)

    The wave of collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of USSR is dubbed "the Soviet East Wave" (which also puns with the alias of Su Shi, a poet and politician in the Sung dynasty).

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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