1. 1薄紗般的;近乎透明的

    If cloth, mist, or a curtain is filmy, it is very thin, so you can almost see through it: a filmy dress, a filmy scarf, a filmy cloud over the hills. This film is the old meaning — a thin layer, like a skin — not a movie. That is why a filmy curtain has nothing to do with the cinema. The word feels a little soft and story-like; you find it in descriptions of clothes and weather more than in a science lab. Though actually, filmic looks like a sister and is built from the same pieces, but filmic means “about movies.” Same family, different job.

組成From film (a thin layer) + -y (like that). Doublet of filmic. Old Dutch had a close cousin, velmich / vilmich, also meaning like a thin skin.

同家族的字

  • filmhere the older meaning: a thin layer, not a movie
  • filmica doublet: same pieces, but filmic means “about movies”

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

filmyadj/ˈfɪlmi/

  • 1

    Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.

  • 2

    Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.

    • The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt On the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station.
  • 3

    Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.

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