Flicker
['flɪkə] or ['flɪkɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) North American woodpecker.
(noun.) a momentary flash of light.
(verb.) move back and forth very rapidly; 'the candle flickered'.
(verb.) flash intermittently; 'The lights flicked on and off'.
(verb.) shine unsteadily; 'The candle flickered'.
安德烈整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
(v. i.) To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
(n.) The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
(n.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
克劳德整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Flutter.[2]. Fluctuate, waver, float.
編輯:摩尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Flutter, quiver, bicker, falter, waver, glimmer, shimmer, scintillate
ANT:Stream, blaze, gleam, shine, beam
整理:伊冯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to flutter and move the wings as a bird: to burn unsteadily as a flame.—n. an act of flickering a flickering movement.—v.i. Flicht′er (Scot.) to flutter quiver.—adv. Flick′eringly.
手打:纳塔利
例句/造句/用法:
- If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- That first revival seemed like the flicker of a dying lamp. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Through this intermittent movement I obtain a longer period of rest for each picture, which accomplishes perfect projection of pictures without flicker. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When I entered the bedchamber, and softly approached the bedside by the dim flicker of the night-lamp, my wife was asleep. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Here again--behold the branchless tree, the unstabled Rosinante; the film of cloud, the flicker of moonshine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A flicker of excitement danced on Gerald's face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His face flickered with sardonic comprehension. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He looked at her again, and a fire flickered up in his eyes. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And his long, pale, rather elegant face flickered as he made his sarcastic remarks. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The candle-flames flickered in the frozen air, in the intense silence. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- An ironical smile flickered on Gudrun's face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The rushlight flickered in the basin. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- War rages yet with the audacious Boythorn, though at uncertain intervals, and now hotly, and now coolly, flickering like an unsteady fire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The candles were flickering in their sockets. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- His eyes were flickering with mixed lights, wanting something of her, yet not wanting it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The flickering fires in his eyes concentrated as he looked into her eyes. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Halliday hung motionless, an almost imbecile smile flickering palely on his face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The spirit of life seemed to linger in his form, as a dying flame on an altar flickers on the embers of an accepted sacrifice. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And she remained for some moments looking only at the small buds out of which the red flickers of the stigma issued. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
編輯:洛娜