flyspeck

n. 蝇粪留下的污点, 小斑, 污点 vi. 弄脏

发音

US

词形变化

flyspecks 复数 flyspecks flyspecking flyspecks 三单 flyspecking 现在分词 flyspecked 过去式 flyspecked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.

    The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.

  2. 2.

    Anything tiny or insignificant.

    引申义

    From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.

    We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.

v.
  1. 1.

    To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.

  2. 2.

    To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

atom particle speck molecule mote corpuscle

相关短语

sooty blotch and flyspeck

词源

From fly + speck.

来源：wiktionary