喜樂美語
  1. 1飛掠、輕快掠過、飛來飛去

    To flit is to move lightly and quickly, without staying long in one place — like a small bird, a moth, or a thought. People, eyes, and attention can flit too: she flitted from group to group at the party; his eyes flitted over the page. The feeling is lightness, not power. You do not flit if you stomp, march, or settle in. The word is a little literary and a little British in flavour; American English uses it, but dart, dart around, or hop might feel more ordinary there. As a verb it is the common use. There is a noun, a flit, for a quick light movement, but you will meet the verb far more. Though actually, in British informal speech, to flit can also mean to move house, and a moonlight flit is leaving a home secretly, often at night, often because you cannot pay the rent. That is the same old 'move' sense, grown heavier. Here the main picture is the light, quick, not-staying-long one.

組成From Middle English flitten, from Old Norse flytja, 'to move'. Further back it belongs to a family of 'flow / run' roots. Related everyday words in the North Germanic languages still mean 'to move' (as with Swedish flytta). That is the origin story; the English word itself does not split into a prefix and a root you can see.

原始詞典資料12 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。

flitnoun詞源 1/flɪt/

  • 1

    A fluttering or darting movement.

  • 2

    A sudden departure from a property.

    • I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.
    • let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers.
  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.

    • My computer just had a flit.
  • 4

    datedslangA homosexual.

    • The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.

flitverb詞源 1/flɪt/

  • 1

    To move about rapidly and nimbly.

    • the low buzz of insects flitting over the flowers
    • A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]
  • 2

    To move quickly from one location to another.

    • By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.
    • The chevalier's manner was now completely altered; and Francesca wondered within herself that he could be so amusing, as he exerted himself to describe the various visitors who flitted to and fro.
  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo unpredictably change state for short periods of time.

    • My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
  • 4

    dialectalTo move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).

    • After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.
    • […] we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.
  • 5

    To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.

  • 6

    To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

    • the free soul to flitting air resign'd

flitadj詞源 1/flɪt/

  • 1

    obsoleteFast, nimble.

    • And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...].
    • To that god-trodden western shore, as flit benighted birds.

flitnoun詞源 2

  • 1

    computingengineeringmathematicsA flow control unit or flow control digit.

    • header flit

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