wink的意思|wink的解释-里氏词典

Wink \Wink\, n.
1. The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids
quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a
moment.

I have not slept one wink. --Shak.

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink. --Donne.

2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
--Sir. P. Sidney.

The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down,
And tips you, the freeman, a wink. --Swift.

Wink \Wink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Winked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Winking}.] [OE. winken, AS. wincian; akin to D. wenken, G.
winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan.
vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch?n to
waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. weak; cf. AS. wincel a
corner. Cf. {Wench}, {Wince}, v. i.]
1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] ``Although I wake or
wink.'' --Chaucer.

2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a
quick motion.

He must wink, so loud he would cry. --Chaucer.

And I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
--Shak.

They are not blind, but they wink. --Tillotson.

3. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to
blink.

A baby of some three months old, who winked, and
turned aside its little face from the too vivid
light of day. --Hawthorne.

4. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of
one eye only.

Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.
--Swift.

5. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to
connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.

The times of this ignorance God winked at. --Acts
xvii. 30.

And yet, as though he knew it not,
His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign.
--Herbert.

Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
--Locke.

6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.

{Winking monkey} (Zo["o]l.), the white-nosed monkey
({Cersopithecus nictitans}).

Wink \Wink\, v. t.
To cause (the eyes) to wink.[Colloq.]

Though Pizza Hut's spots are done with what the company's marketers say is a "wink," the chain is serious about stopping McDonald's before it rolls out a competing product nationwide.
But, I haven't lost a wink, really.
Actors who switch in a wink from Nutcracker bears who cavort to Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" to dancing Christmas trees with twinkling lights and green felt arms need fast changes and freedom to move.
"This is the year of the big wink, the high art of blue smoke and mirrors," said Rep. Don Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee last February on the day Reagan's $1.1 trillion budget reached Congress.
The inability to wink may seem like one of life's smaller tribulations.
But there came a tendency among some NASA managers to maybe wink at some problems, among them an inadequate booster rocket design.
Senate investigators have stressed anew that the battle against illicit drugs shipped from Latin America will be "an uphill fight for a long, long time" if the government continues to tolerate foreign leaders who merely wink at the problem.
One government official says that parking agreements frequently are done on "a wink and a nod."
If we are going to send young drug agents into Mexico, we should demand full cooperation and not wink at it.
"Forty-nine bucks," Mrs. Ward says with a wink.
And they think they've gotten a wink from the man himself.
But the official said that in some terror attacks "it's not clear-cut whether Libya ordered them or maybe it was just a wink and nod kind of thing" in which Gadhafi gave implicit approval.
"I knew which items to buy because I checked with the D.A.," state Trooper James Palth said with a wink.
The Reagan administration must answer tough questions about whether its support for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels led it to wink at multimillion-dollar drug deals, Sen. John F. Kerry says.
The other member states used to wink at Britain's opt-out from Emu, believing Britain could never in practice afford to stay out.
"Dogs can wink, too," he adds.
Now there are disturbing signs that the committee may have given Mr. St Germain a gentleman's wink.
"Winking helps the circulation of tears, both by increasing drainage and by causing constriction of the lacrimal gland," says the "Encyclopedia of the Eye." It's worrisome, of course, when a person suddenly loses the ability to wink.
"When it comes to the deficit, this has been the year of the big wink," the Ways and Means chairman continued.
But he added with a wink: "We have lived through 40 years of socialism, and we will also survive German unity." A high school teacher fired a starter's pistol in an attempt to control noisy students in his classroom, officials said.
She emphasizes her point with a broad wink.
A handshake, a hug and a wink with a person who was in attendance among the crowd of 5,000 at the ceremony have become, according to Mr. Cockburn, a celebration honoring Rabbi Levinger.
Bill Hayes, a former policeman from Albuquerque, N.M., says he learned to wink only because he had to.
Roy Markegard, a horse trainer in Half Moon Bay, Calif., says he's taught 80 of his equine friends to wink simply by winking at them until they wink back.
Roy Markegard, a horse trainer in Half Moon Bay, Calif., says he's taught 80 of his equine friends to wink simply by winking at them until they wink back.

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