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To shine or burn in an unsteady way, going bright and dim quickly again and again - like a candle flame in the wind, or an old lightbulb about to die. It's also used for feelings that appear briefly and might disappear, like 'a flicker of hope' or 'a flicker of doubt.'
(動詞)閃爍、忽明忽暗;(名詞)閃爍;一閃而過的感覺
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
Flickername
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A surname.
flickernoun詞源 1/ˈflɪkə/
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An unsteady flash of light.
- the flicker of the dying candle
- the flicker of an old movie
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A short moment.
- a flicker of emotion
- a flicker of hope
flickerverb詞源 1/ˈflɪkə/
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To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
- The shadows flicker to and fro.
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […]
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To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
- A strong desire to smash up everything in the room kept flickering in his head.
- There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.
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To flutter or flap.
- And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
- But the child saw her; was it possible? He turned his head towards her, and flickered his baby hands, and cooed with that indescribable voice that goes to every woman's heart.
flickernoun詞源 2/ˈflɪkə/
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Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
flickernoun詞源 3/ˈflɪkə/
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One who flicks.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。