flit是什么意思,flit怎么用

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📰 外刊例句

That arrangement suited many workers, who preferred the stability of permanent employment to the alternative of flitting between short-term contracts , which they would also find difficult to organise. 这种安排对许多工人来说很合适,他们更喜欢长期就业的稳定性,而不是辗转在短期合同之间。工人要把各种短期工作安排好也并非易事。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[verb] move swiftly and lightly
[动词] 迅速轻快地移动


💡 深入解读

Flit 是一个与小站(微信公众号:田间小站)推送过的Flirt十分形近的单词,可以一并联想记忆。该词常用搭配 flit from A to B 或 flit between A and B 表示“掠过、飞过、闪过”或“轻快地从一处到另一处”,强调迅速轻快地移动,既包括在两地间来回穿梭且不作长时间停留,也可以指鸟、蝙蝠等飞来飞去,很快从一个地方飞到另一个地方,以及引申指表情、念头等在脸上或脑海里一闪而过,

比如:

岁月飞逝。

Time flitted by.

He flits from one job to another.他频繁跳槽。

A look of panic flitted across his face.他脸上掠过一丝惊慌。

I had to change schools every time my parents flitted.在苏格兰方言中, flit 还被用来表示“迁移、迁居、搬家”,比如:我父母每次迁居,我都得换学校。

而在英式口语中, flit 则可用作名词表示为躲债而暗中“迁移、迁居、搬家”,比如小站曾在熟词僻义 | moonlight 是瞒着老板偷偷做什么?中提到过的:晚上/半夜潜逃

do a moonlight/midnight flit


📚 名著用例

In these lengthened vigils, his brain often reeled, and visions seemed to flit before him; perhaps seen doubtfully, and by a faint light of their own, in the remote dimness of the chamber, or more vividly and close beside him, within the looking-glass. 在长夜不眠的祈祷之中,他的头脑时常晕眩,似乎有许多幻象在他眼前飞舞;这些幻象有时在内室的昏暗中自身发着微光,看着似有似无,有时则出现在镜子之中,近在咫尺,显得更清晰些。

— 出自《美国浪漫主义作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)于1850年出版的长篇小说《红字》( The Scarlet Letter: A Romance )。》


🔍 同近义词

  • flitter: move quickly in an apparently random or purposeless manner
  • flicker: make small, quick movements; flutter rapidly
  • flutter: (of a bird or other winged creature) fly unsteadily or hover by flapping the wings quickly and lightly
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