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A groundswell is when a feeling grows quickly among a lot of people — support, anger, hope — as if it rose up from underneath. You often cannot point to one leader who started it; it feels as if the crowd itself began to move. The picture comes from the sea: a swell is a long, slow wave that started far away. Even when the water near you looks quiet, that wave is already on its way. Writers borrowed the word for public feeling. It is a bit formal. You meet it in news and speeches more than in everyday chat. Though actually, it is not the ground swelling up, like a bump in the earth. The “ground” here is from the old sea picture, not from soil.
民意浪潮、湧現的聲勢
組成ground + swell. First a long wave at sea that you feel even in quiet water; later, a feeling that rises among many people in the same way.
同家族的字
- swellthe sea meaning: a long wave that rises and rolls; the feeling is pictured as that wave
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
groundswellnoun
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hobbieslifestylenauticalA broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance.
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A broadly-based shifting of public opinion.
- An astonishing groundswell of support for the new Democratic frontrunner, Barack Obama, is threatening to sweep Hillary Clinton away in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary election of the 2008 presidential contest tomorrow.
- The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。