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  1. There are some ghostly shapes of bats flitting about in the dark.
    黑暗中有些蝙蝠飞翔的鬼影。
  2. 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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