shimmer

英语

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈʃɪm.ɚ/

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词源 1

源自中古英语 schimeren，源自古英语 sċymrian、sċimrian、sċimerian，源自原始日耳曼语 *skimarōną。同源词有荷兰语 schemeren、德语 schimmern。

动词

shimmer (第三人称单数简单现在时 shimmers，现在分词 shimmering，一般过去时及过去分词 shimmered)

1. (不及物) 微弱地发光，断断续续地发光

   近义词： twinkle、sparkle、glisten、glimmer

   • 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135,^[1]

     With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare

   • 1850, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley‎^[2], 3rd版, London: Edward Moxon, Conclusion, p. 173:

     The shimmering glimpses of a stream

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   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring‎^[3], New York: Ballantine Books, 出版于 1973, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 339:

     I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.

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   • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, 章号 22, 出自 This Mournable Body‎^[4], Minneapolis: Graywolf Press:

     Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.

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衍生词汇

• ashimmer
• shimmerer
• shimmer stick
• shimmery

 

名词

shimmer (复数 shimmers)

1. 黯淡的光，摇曳微弱的光

   近义词： glimmer

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   • 1922, Katherine Anne Porter, “María Concepción”, 出自 Flowering Judas and Other Stories‎^[5], New York: The Modern Library, 出版于 1940，页号 6:

     The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.

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   • 2013, Rachel Kushner, 章号 16, 出自 The Flamethrowers‎^[6], New York: Vintage, 出版于 2014，页号 294:

     He’d aimed film lamps at the rectangular pools, which sent reflections up the gallery wall in veined and fractured shimmers.

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2. (讯号处理) 跳动，抖动

   同类词： jitter

   • 2010, Daniel R. Boone, The Voice and Voice Therapy, Pearson College Division, →ISBN:

     As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.

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延伸阅读

• “shimmer”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• “shimmer”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302

词源 2

shim +‎ -er

名词

shimmer (复数 shimmers)

1. (犯罪学) 读卡器垫片 （一种非法安装到ATM等设备的读卡器上的中间层设备，用来盗取读取的卡片的芯片信息以便非法复制卡片）

同类词汇

• shimming
• skimmer
• skimming

 

约拉语

词源

源自中古英语 schimeren，源自古英语 sċymrian、sċimrian、sċimerian。

动词

shimmer (现在分词 shimmereen)

1. 闪烁

参考资料

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, 编, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ISBN 978-1436729291