trickle
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
原指淚水，可能源自strickle，to strike的反覆態（可能源自tears strickle中s的合併或分化).
其他因錯誤分析造出新詞的相似案例，可參見apron、daffodil、newt、nickname、orange、umpire。
發音[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
trickle (複數 trickles)
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- 涓流 （很小的水流）
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- 小溪縮成了一條小小的涓流。
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
- 我臥室洗臉盆的水龍頭漏水，整晚滴滴答答的搞得我難受得不得了。
- 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa
- 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.
動詞[編輯]
trickle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 trickles, 現在分詞 trickling, 一般過去時及過去分詞 trickled)
水從這位男孩的臉上緩緩滑下。
- (及物) 滴，使...慢慢淌下
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- 醫生在傷口上滴了一點碘。
- (不及物) 慢慢流淌，慢慢滴下
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- 現在水只是細細地在流，但後面它會變成很大的洪流。
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
- 這部電影太爛了，還沒結束就已經有人慢慢地走掉了。
- 1897, Bram Stoker, 章號 21, 出自 Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
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- 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, 「Summer Saturday at Waterloo」, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 265:
- The period of intensive traffic is over by about 5.30 p.m. and for the rest of the evening steadily diminishes, the main activity being the Channel Islands boat trains which trickle in after about 6.30 p.m. and depart again for Weymouth an hour or so later.
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- (不及物) 慢慢地移動或滾動
- 2010 12月 29, Sam Sheringham, 「Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton」, 出自 BBC[1]:
- Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.
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