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When something shimmers, it shines with a soft light that seems to or shake a little.
When something shimmers當某個東西閃爍時, it shines with a soft light它發出的是柔和的光 that seems to tremble or shake a little那光看起來會微微顫動、晃動。
Heat over a summer road can shimmer. Water in sun shimmers. Silk, , and distant city lights at night can too.
Heat over a summer road夏天馬路上方的熱氣 can shimmer會這樣閃爍。Water in sun陽光下的水面 shimmers也會閃爍。Silk, sequins, and distant city lights at night絲綢、亮片，還有遠處夜晚的城市燈光 can too也都會。
The glow is not a hard and not a steady lamp; it is gentle and a bit unsteady, as if the light itself were moving.
The glow is not a hard glare那種光不是刺眼的強光, and not a steady lamp也不是穩定不變的燈光; it is gentle and a bit unsteady而是柔和、有點不穩定, as if the light itself were moving彷彿光本身在動。
Shimmer is also a noun: a shimmer of moonlight on the sea. It is a quiet, rather pretty word, at home in everyday talk and in stories.
Shimmer is also a noun也可以當名詞: a shimmer of moonlight on the sea例如「海面上一片閃爍的月光」。It is a quiet, rather pretty word是個安靜、相當好聽的字, at home in everyday talk and in stories在日常對話和故事裡都很自然。
People stretch it a little for anything that seems to flicker in a lovely way, including heat haze, which is not really light on a surface but looks like it. If the light is strong, sharp, or still, shine, glow, or fits better.
People stretch it a little for anything that seems to flicker in a lovely way人們也會把它稍微引申用在任何看起來美美地閃爍的東西上, including heat haze包括熱氣造成的朦朧, which is not really light on a surface but looks like it那其實不是表面上的光，只是看起來像。If the light is strong, sharp, or still如果光是強烈、銳利，或是靜止不動的, shine, glow, or glare fits better用 shine、glow 或 glare 會更合適。
組成源於中古英語 schimeren，再往上是古英語 sċymrian／sċimrian／sċimerian，出自日耳曼語的「柔光閃動」。荷蘭語 schemeren、德語 schimmern 是同一家人，不是英語借來的拼法。
原始詞典資料5 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。
shimmerverb詞源 1/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
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To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
- 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
- The shimmering glimpses of a stream
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Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
shimmernoun詞源 1/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
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A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
- I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
- The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
- As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
shimmernoun詞源 2/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
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A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
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。