1. 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

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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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。