- 1
To flow slowly, in a thin, small stream — water trickling down a window. Used figuratively, things "trickle in" when they arrive slowly, only a few at a time, like news trickling out or customers trickling into a shop. As a noun, "a trickle" means a very small, slow amount.
滴流;(消息、人)緩慢陸續出現
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。
tricklenoun/ˈtɹɪkəl/
- 1
A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- 2
A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
- The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
trickleverb/ˈtɹɪkəl/
- 1
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- 2
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
- 3
To move or roll slowly.
- Some [marbles] were found in a child's grave at Nagada, Egypt […] together with a set of ninepins and three rectangular bricks which could have formed an arch through which to trickle the balls.
- They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates.
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。