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Squiggly describes a line that twists and curls in an irregular way — not straight, not a neat circle, just wandering. Think of the line a child draws when they scribble, or the wavy your computer puts under a word it thinks is spelled wrong, or the shape of a worm moving. The key idea is that the curves are messy and . If a curve is smooth and regular, like the edge of a plate, we would not call it squiggly. It is a friendly, informal, slightly childish-sounding word — you hear it from teachers, parents, and designers, and you see it in everyday writing, but you would not usually put it in a serious report. People also use it about handwriting that is hard to read: "his signature is just a squiggly mess." A little more loosely, people say a person's stomach feels squiggly when they are nervous, though that use is rarer. The noun it comes from, a , is the mark itself; squiggly is what that mark looks like.
彎彎曲曲的、歪歪扭扭的(形容線條)
原始詞典資料2 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。
squigglyadj/ˈskwɪɡli/
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informalNot straight; wavy and irregular.
- She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points.
- My first memories of eating are bowls of squiggly pasta with red sauce and lots of white cheese.
squigglynoun/ˈskwɪɡli/
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informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsA wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or source code.
- If you have dynamic spell checking enabled, your pamphlet will become a sea of red squigglies.
- Coding errors have colored squigglies beneath them to indicate the kind of error. For example, syntax errors appear with red squigglies beneath them...
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。