• vt. 使振蕩；使振動；使動搖
• vi. 振蕩；擺動；猶豫

來自拉丁語os,嘴，詞源同oral,-cill,小詞后綴。原指在葡萄園入口處掛上的酒神Bacchus的面具，相當于庇佑符，以保佑葡萄豐收。因這個小面具常在風(fēng)中搖擺，最終詞義俗化，引申詞義波動，使搖擺。

oscillate

oscillate: [18] Latin ōs originally meant ‘mouth’ (it was the source of English oral), but it was also used for ‘face’. Its diminutive form ōscillum ‘little face’ was applied to a mask depicting the god Bacchus that was hung up as a charm in vineyards, to be swung to and fro by the breeze. In due course its meaning broadened out to ‘swing’ generally, and a verb ōscillāre ‘swing’ was derived from it – whence English oscillate.
=> oral

oscillate (v.)

1726, back-formation from oscillation, or else from Latin oscillatus, past participle of oscillare (see oscillation). From 1917 in electronics. Related: Oscillated; oscillating.

1. On an oscilloscope, you can see an electrical current oscillate up and down.

在示波器上面你可以看到一股電流上下振動.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. In the case of homogeneous broadening only one mode can normally oscillate.

對于均勻加寬的情況,只有一個模能正常地振蕩.

來自辭典例句

3. He seemed to oscillate between very drunk and icy sober.

他似乎是在酩酊大醉和完全清醒之間擺來擺去.

來自辭典例句

4. It is true that system could oscillate back - wards and forwards in this dead zone.

不過,系統(tǒng)在這個死區(qū)內(nèi)可能會發(fā)生來回的振蕩.

來自辭典例句

5. The standard EBU model can not drive combustion to oscillate.

EBU模型不包含燃燒振蕩機理.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)