Explain why the reflection of distant lights on the rippling lake surface is so long?

The reflection of the lights in the lake is the image formed by the reflection of the light on the lake surface. When the lake is as calm as a mirror, the light will form a clear-cut reflection symmetrically under the water. When the breeze blows, the calm lake surface will have layers of fine waves, like small plane mirrors; under each small mirror surface, a symmetrical light shadow will appear at a place symmetrical to the light. Because these small mirrors are not on the same plane, the positions of the images formed by each are also different. If the water waves are arranged neatly, the thin waves are like a row of small mirrors with the same inclination arranged one behind the other, and the shadows of the lights will be arranged neatly one on top of the other, forming a long series of reflections. But if the waves on the water surface are very large and the wave surface is irregularly arranged, the lamp shadows will be torn into pieces and form colorful fragments; these scattered light spots will ripple with the ups and downs of the waves and will no longer be in a string.