glimmer
glimmer 英 [ˈglɪmə(r)] 美 [ˈɡlɪmɚ]
n. 微光；闪光；少许 vi. 闪烁；发微光
进行时:glimmering 过去式:glimmered 过去分词:glimmered 第三人称单数:glimmers 名词复数:glimmers
- A glimmer is a tiny glint of light or the sliver of an idea. Either way, it's a sign of a lot more going on behind the scenes.
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- n. 微光；闪光；少许
- vi. 闪烁；发微光
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1. Even the delay gave foreign and local white business people a glimmer of hope that they could go on running their own shows.
甚至这个延迟都会给外商和当地白种商人以渺茫的希望：他们也许能够继续经营自己的事业。
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2. But after just 30 minutes of sifting through the garbage mountain, he struck lucky when he spotted a tiny glimmer surrounded by black sludge, wedged between two brown bags.
在垃圾堆里翻找了30分钟后，他非常幸运看到黑色淤渣里微微透出一丝闪光，戒指被夹在两只棕色袋子之间。
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3. I love better than any theory the sound of the Gate of Ivory, turning upon its hinges, and hold that he alone who has passed the rose-strewn threshold can catch the far glimmer of the Gate of Horn.
比起理论来，我更喜欢象牙之门的声音，喜欢聆听铰链的转动，并相信，倘若一个人能越过撒满玫瑰的门槛，他便能望见远方牛角之门的微光。
- glimmer (n.) 1580s, "a faint, wavering light," from glimmer (v.).
- glimmer (v.) late 14c., "to shine brightly;" early 15c., "to shine dimly," perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch glimmen, Middle Low German glimmern, from an extended (frequentative?) form of Proto-Germanic *glim-, which also is the base of Old English glæm "brightness" (see gleam (n.)). Sense shifted 15c. to "shine faintly." Compare Dutch glimmeren, German glimmeren "to shine dimly." Related: Glimmered; glimmering.
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