Twinkle

(noun.) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash.

(verb.) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; 'Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?'.

尤妮斯录入

• The water pumps were at work again, and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did not also twinkle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A colliery, remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It'll pay better, I assure you,' said Fledgeby, bestowing an inveigling twinkle or two upon the dressmaker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I quite understand your position, said Holmes, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• O yes, Mas'r, said Topsy, with another twinkle, her hands still devoutly folded. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• This IS luck, he declared; and she caught a twinkle of amused curiosity between his screwed-up lids. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Sadly and slowly I stemmed my course from among the heaps of slain, and, guided by the twinkling lights of the town, at length reached Rodosto. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In a twinkling they were all out of the carriage. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• These oil-twinkling streets are very still: I like them for their lowliness and peace. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Out with you, in a twinkling, every one, and up into these rocks with me. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Stocks which had been accumulating for years now went off in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Jo's face was very sober, but her eyes twinkled, and there was an odd sound in her voice of repressed emotion of some sort. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And she twinkled a little wistfully at Archer. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He jumped up, and the leaden eyes which twinkled behind his mountainous cheeks leered horribly upon the food as he unpacked it from the basket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Milverton's smile broadened and his eyes twinkled humorously. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Topsy's eyes twinkled, and she looked inquiringly. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Venn sat with lips impassively closed and eyes reduced to a pair of unimportant twinkles; he scarcely appeared to breathe. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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