Dimmer
['dɪmə] or ['dɪmɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination.
校对:谢尔曼--From WordNet
例句:
- And is justice dimmer in the individual, and is her form different, or is she the same which we found her to be in the State? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- So did the old man, otherwise still unchanged in attitude; so, probably, did the old woman in her dimmer part of the room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Dusk was beginning to reign; her parlour fire already glowed with twilight ruddiness; but I thought she wished the room dimmer, the hour later. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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