Flicker

(noun.) North American woodpecker.

(noun.) a momentary flash of light.

(verb.) move back and forth very rapidly; 'the candle flickered'.

(verb.) flash intermittently; 'The lights flicked on and off'.

(verb.) shine unsteadily; 'The candle flickered'.

安德烈整理

• If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That first revival seemed like the flicker of a dying lamp. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Through this intermittent movement I obtain a longer period of rest for each picture, which accomplishes perfect projection of pictures without flicker. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When I entered the bedchamber, and softly approached the bedside by the dim flicker of the night-lamp, my wife was asleep. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Here again--behold the branchless tree, the unstabled Rosinante; the film of cloud, the flicker of moonshine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A flicker of excitement danced on Gerald's face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• His face flickered with sardonic comprehension. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He looked at her again, and a fire flickered up in his eyes. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And his long, pale, rather elegant face flickered as he made his sarcastic remarks. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The candle-flames flickered in the frozen air, in the intense silence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• An ironical smile flickered on Gudrun's face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The rushlight flickered in the basin. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• War rages yet with the audacious Boythorn, though at uncertain intervals, and now hotly, and now coolly, flickering like an unsteady fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The candles were flickering in their sockets. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His eyes were flickering with mixed lights, wanting something of her, yet not wanting it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The flickering fires in his eyes concentrated as he looked into her eyes. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Halliday hung motionless, an almost imbecile smile flickering palely on his face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The spirit of life seemed to linger in his form, as a dying flame on an altar flickers on the embers of an accepted sacrifice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And she remained for some moments looking only at the small buds out of which the red flickers of the stigma issued. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

编辑:洛娜