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单词 underpulse
释义

underpulse

English

Etymology

under- + pulse

Noun

underpulse (plural underpulses)

  1. An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.
    • 1883, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 18:
      He did nothing, as yet, which was really the reverse ; he did not make her his evident object, —it seems to me that this is always a high and delicate test of gentlemanhood, — and yet, to me, who felt an underpulse in all these things, there was a plain perception, that as it had been she from whom he went away, it was to her now that he was come back.
    • 1894, Edgar Fawcett, Outrageous Fortune, page 126:
      He began lightly, but her unforeseen surrender gave to the next words an underpulse of feeling that quite spoiled his response as comedy.
    • 2011, Debra Doyle, ‎James D. Macdonald, The Stars Asunder: A New Novel of the Mageworlds, →ISBN:
      What was missing from the experience, though, was the driving, knife-sharp underpulse of fear.
    • 2015, Daniel Albright, Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927, →ISBN, page 70:
      The music seems to have no particular sense of beginning or end: it doesn't drive toward a cadence; it simply elaborates the big waves with little waves, underpulses, in the way that the surge of surf on a beach falls into long rhythms of tide and medium rhythms of regular wave fall and short rhythms of little splashes at the end of the regular wave fall.
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