trickle
英语
编辑词源
编辑原指泪水，可能源自strickle，to strike的反复态（可能源自tears strickle中s的合并或分化).
其他因错误分析造出新词的相似案例，可参见apron、daffodil、newt、nickname、orange、umpire。
发音
编辑名词
编辑trickle (複數 trickles)
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- 涓流 （很小的水流）
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- 小溪缩成了一条小小的涓流。
- 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.
动词
编辑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)
水从这位男孩的脸上缓缓滑下。
- (及物) 滴，使...慢慢淌下
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- 医生在伤口上滴了一点碘。
- (不及物) 慢慢流淌，慢慢滴下
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- 现在水只是细细地在流，但后面它会变成很大的洪流。
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
- 这部电影太烂了，还没结束就已经有人慢慢地走掉了。
- 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，第 265 頁:
- 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) 慢慢地移动或滚动