flitting 调拨
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- There are some ghostly shapes of bats flitting about in the dark.
黑暗中有些蝙蝠飞翔的鬼影。 - The little girl was flitting about in the garden, picking flowers.
小姑娘在花园里轻盈地跑来跑去,摘着花。
Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flitting}.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel.
flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. {Fleet}, v.
i.]
1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a
rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits
away; a cloud flits along.
A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson.
2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden.
3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to
another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men,
departing this life, did flit out of one body into
some other. --Hooker.
4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot.
& Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
--Dryden.
Flitting \Flit"ting\, n.
1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov.
Eng.]
A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and
it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to
move away. --Jeffrey.
Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n.
Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
century. [Obs. or Scot.]
These ``flytings'' consisted of alternate torrents of
sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
combatants. --Saintsbury.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Also, notes Anguilla, there's a factor toymakers call "play value" _ what laymen call "fun." The old-style games often had plots as simple as eradicating space bugs flitting around the screen.
- He was talking to me in the courtyard." The harsh view is that he was, and is, a charlatan in pastor's robes, driven by ego, flitting from one brushfire to another only long enough to get his face on the camera again.