flickering

柯林斯词典

1. V-I If a light or flame flickers, it shines unsteadily. 閃爍不定
Fluorescent lights flickered, and then the room was blindingly bright. 熒光燈閃了閃，接著房間裡就亮得令人目眩了。
2. N-COUNT Flicker is also a noun. 閃爍
Looking through the window I saw the flicker of flames. 透過窗子望出去，我看到了閃爍的火光。
3. N a visual sensation, often seen in a television image, produced by periodic fluctuations in the brightness of light at a frequency below that covered by the persistence of vision (在光柵掃描顯示中的)閃爍
4. N any North American woodpecker of the genus Colaptes, esp C. auratus (yellow-shafted flicker), which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail 北美啄木鳥統稱