trickle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very thin river.
    — The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
  2. A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.
    — The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
动词 v.
  1. to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. transitive
    — The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  2. to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. intransitive
    — Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
  3. To move or roll slowly. intransitive
    — Some [marbles] were found in a child's grave at Nagada, Egypt […] together with a set of ninepins and three rectangular bricks which could have formed an arch through which to trickle the balls.

词形变化

trickles plural trickles present,singular,third-person trickling participle,present trickled participle,past trickled past

词汇关系

衍生词
trickle charge tricklet atrickle trickle charger trickledown trickle down trickle-down trickler tricklesome trickle truth trickle-up trend tricklingly trickly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
词源 2
From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
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