Costas Synolakis says Japan's concrete sea walls were not built to handle such high waves.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

And all we mean by constructive interference is that literally those two waves add together, such as the maxima are now twice as high, and the minima are now twice as low.

相干相长，相干相长也就是,说两个波加在一起，所以最大值变成2倍那么高，最低值变成2倍那么低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Then you get successively deeper, II through IV, slow, irregular, high amplitude delta waves, and then once you reach stage IV you start going up again, up through stage III and II.

然后睡得越来越深，从第二到第四阶段，慢，不规则，高振幅的δ波，等你到达第四阶段，你又开始返回，第三阶段和第二阶段。

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The waves rose too high. The waves with their white tops pushed at the open boat with angry violence.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

So, for example, we have this average level, and then it can go high where we have the peak, or it can go very low. We can also discuss sound waves, so again it's just the periodic variation of some property -- in this case we're talking about density, so we have high density areas and low density areas.

例如这是平均位置，在峰的位置水位高，在谷水位低，我们也可以,讨论声波它也是某种,量的周期变化，在这里我们,讨论的是密度,我们有高密度区和低密度区。

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He faced winds blowing more than one hundred twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The Anderson reported winds of about one hundred forty kilometers an hour and waves ten meters high.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

In coastal areas it can swell,or enlarge, to waves of up to thirty meters high.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The early November winds reached hurricane force and caused waves eleven meters high.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

In Thailand, some waves were as high as many buildings.

VOA: special.2009.03.17