snowflake

FREQ #22312

n. 雪片, 雪花, 雪片莲

发音

UK /ˈsnəʊ.fleɪk/
US /ˈsnoʊ.fleɪk/

词形变化

snowflakes 复数 snowflakes snowflaked snowflakes 三单 snowflaking snowflaking 现在分词 snowflaked 过去式 snowflaked 过去分词

别名

snow-flake snow flake ❄

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.

    雪花

    雪片

  2. 2.

    Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.

    雪片莲

  3. 3.

    The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.

  4. 4.

    Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.

    贬义 俚语
  5. 5.

    Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.

    贬义 俚语

    When have words ever hurt anyone? The triggered snowflakes at this liberal university are trying to literally murder our freedom of speech.

    Fox News pundits claim to be upset because companies are choosing to embrace the "holidays" rather than "Christmas" to avoid offending any liberal snowflakes.

  6. 6.

    A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.

    医学
  7. 7.

    Something that is unique in every presentation.

  8. 8.

    A Caucasian person.

    玻璃心

    贬义 俚语
  9. 9.

    Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)

    历史
v.
  1. 1.

    To fall in the manner of a snowflake.

  2. 2.

    To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.

    计算机 工程 数学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

flake snowbird snow bunting

上位词 2

crystal bunting

部分词 1

water

整体词 2

snow snowfall

相关短语

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词源

From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke.

来源：wiktionary