gleam

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n. 光束, 微光, 反光 vi. 闪烁, 隐约地闪现 vt. 使发微光, 使闪烁

发音

UK /ɡliːm/
US /ɡlim/

词形变化

gleams 复数 gleams gleams 三单 gleaming 现在分词 gleamed 过去式 gleamed 过去分词 gleamest gleamedst 过去式 gleameth 三单 gleamed 复数

别名

gleame gleem

教材释义与例句

名词

微光；闪光；瞬息的一现

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.

  3. 3.

    A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  4. 4.

    A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  5. 5.

    Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  6. 6.

    Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.

    废旧 不可数 可数
v.
  1. 1.

    Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To be strongly but briefly apparent.

    比喻 不及物
  4. 1.

    Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.

    不及物 废旧 体育

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

glow glimmer gleaming lambency

上位词 7

flash shine radiance effulgence radiancy refulgence refulgency
动词

同义词 5

shine glitter glimmer glint glisten

上位词 5

look seem appear radiate come along

下位词 2

shimmer spangle

词源

From Middle English glem, gleam, gleme (“shaft of light; part of a comet’s tail; reflected sparkle; dawn; daylight; radiance (physical or spiritual); something fleeting”), from Old English glǣm (“gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (“brightness; splendour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognates * German Low German Gleem (“shine, luster, gloss”) * Faroese glæma (“gleam, glimmer”) * Old High German glīmen (“to glow, shine”); gleimo, glīmo (“glowworm”) (Middle High German glīme, gleime) * Old Saxon glīmo (“brightness”)

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