shimmer

英語

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/

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詞源 1

源自中古英語 schimeren，源自古英語 sċymrian、sċimrian、sċimerian，源自原始日耳曼語 *skimarōną。同源詞有荷蘭語 schemeren、德語 schimmern。

動詞

shimmer (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 shimmers，現在分詞 shimmering，一般過去時及過去分詞 shimmered)

1. (不及物) 微弱地發光，斷斷續續地發光

   近義詞：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, 出版於 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, 章號 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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衍生詞彙

• ashimmer
• shimmerer
• shimmer stick
• shimmery

 

名詞

shimmer (複數 shimmers)

1. 黯淡的光，搖曳微弱的光

   近義詞：glimmer

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   • 1922, Katherine Anne Porter, 「María Concepción」, 出自 Flowering Judas and Other Stories‎^[5], New York: The Modern Library, 出版於 1940，第 6 頁:

     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, 章號 16, 出自 The Flamethrowers‎^[6], New York: Vintage, 出版於 2014，第 294 頁:

     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. (訊號處理) 跳動，抖動

   同類詞：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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延伸閱讀

• 「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年，OCLC 800618302

詞源 2

shim +‎ -er

名詞

shimmer (複數 shimmers)

1. (犯罪) 讀卡器墊片 （一種非法安裝到ATM等設備的讀卡器上的中間層設備，用來盜取讀取的卡片的芯片信息以便非法複製卡片）

同類詞彙

• shimming
• skimmer
• skimming

 

約拉語

詞源

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

動詞

shimmer (現在分詞 shimmereen)

1. 閃爍

參考資料

• Jacob Poole (1867年)，William Barnes, 編， 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