speck

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n. 斑点, 有斑点的东西, 污点, 缺点, 微粒, 肥肉 vt. 使有斑点

发音

US /spɛk/

词形变化

specks 复数 specking specks 三单 specking 现在分词 specked 过去式 specked 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

使有斑点

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A very small amount; a particle; a whit.

    He has not a speck of money.

    not a speck of truth in her story.

  2. 2.

    A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

  3. 3.

    A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.

    斑点

    a tiny speck of soot

  4. 1.

    A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

    不可数
  5. 2.

    Fat; lard; fat meat.

    不可数
  6. 3.

    The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.

    不可数
  7. 4.

    The fat of the hippopotamus.

    不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To mark with specks; to speckle.

    及物

    paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

touch hint pinch atom particle pinpoint molecule mite jot tinge

上位词 8

stuff spot material patch fleck dapple maculation speckle

下位词 5

grain grinding snuff chylomicron flyspeck
动词

上位词 1

mark

词源

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

来源：wiktionary