Twinkle
['twɪŋk(ə)l] or ['twɪŋkl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash.
(verb.) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; 'Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?'.
尤妮斯錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
(v. i.) To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
(n.) A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
(n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
(n.) The time of a wink; a twinkling.
整理:皮尔斯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Sparkle, flash.
n. Twinkling.
錄入:纳塔莉亚
解釋/意思:
v.i. to blink: to shine with a trembling sparkling light: to sparkle: to open and shut the eyes rapidly: to quiver.—ns. Twink′le Twink′ling a quick motion of the eye: the time occupied by a wink: an instant: the scintillation of the fixed stars; Twink′ler.
海耶斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The water pumps were at work again, and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did not also twinkle. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A colliery, remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It'll pay better, I assure you,' said Fledgeby, bestowing an inveigling twinkle or two upon the dressmaker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I quite understand your position, said Holmes, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- O yes, Mas'r, said Topsy, with another twinkle, her hands still devoutly folded. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- This IS luck, he declared; and she caught a twinkle of amused curiosity between his screwed-up lids. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sadly and slowly I stemmed my course from among the heaps of slain, and, guided by the twinkling lights of the town, at length reached Rodosto. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In a twinkling they were all out of the carriage. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- These oil-twinkling streets are very still: I like them for their lowliness and peace. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Out with you, in a twinkling, every one, and up into these rocks with me. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Stocks which had been accumulating for years now went off in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Jo's face was very sober, but her eyes twinkled, and there was an odd sound in her voice of repressed emotion of some sort. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And she twinkled a little wistfully at Archer. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He jumped up, and the leaden eyes which twinkled behind his mountainous cheeks leered horribly upon the food as he unpacked it from the basket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Milverton's smile broadened and his eyes twinkled humorously. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Topsy's eyes twinkled, and she looked inquiringly. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Venn sat with lips impassively closed and eyes reduced to a pair of unimportant twinkles; he scarcely appeared to breathe. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
手打:罗谢尔