Shimmer
['ʃɪmə] or ['ʃɪmɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a weak and tremulous light; 'the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers'; 'the play of light on the water'.
(verb.) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk.
(verb.) shine with a weak or fitful light; 'Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight'.
克劳德特录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
(n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
杰西编辑
同义词及近义词：
v. n. Glimmer, gleam, shine faintly.
科南录入
解释:
v.i. to gleam tremulously to glisten.—ns. Shimm′er Shimm′ering a tremulous gleam.
巴纳德编辑
例句:
- Mrs. Fisher paused and looked reflectively at the deep shimmer of sea between the cactus-flowers. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the wintry sun. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- In an evil moment the shopman held up the lovely, shimmering folds, and said, A bargain, I assure, you, ma'am. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- At the end of the breakfast the Pussum appeared, in a purple silk wrap with a shimmering sash. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- At last came she whom Tarzan sought, with lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor, the lioness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Like a shimmering waterfall turned to burnished metal by a dying sun it fell about her oval face; in waving lines, below her waist it tumbled. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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