| 单词 |
streamlet |
| 释义 |
streamlet|ˈstriːmlɪt|
[f. stream n. + -let.]
A small stream; a brook, rill, or rivulet.
a1552Leland Itin. (1907) II. 145 The streates have streamlettes of springes almost yn every one renning. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 330 The river Medway branching itself into five streamlets. 1729Savage Wanderer i. 313 And hence the Streamlets seek the terrass Shade. 1799Wordsw. Fountain 21 No check, no stay, this Streamlet fears; How merrily it goes! c1820S. Rogers Italy, Feluca 15 A streamlet, clear and full, ran to the sea. 1865Livingstone Zambesi x. 210 Our path..crossed several streamlets.
transf. and fig.1855Bailey Mystic 5 Time's sand-dry streamlet through its glassy straits Flowed ceaseless. 1862Smiles Engineers III. 263 Horizontal tubes, through which the heated air passed in streamlets. 1867Proctor in Intell. Observer Aug. 2 The Milky Way again subdivides, a branch running off at an angle of 20°, and losing itself in a narrow streamlet. 1871Sir W. W. Hunter in Skrine Life (1901) 196, I found great difficulty in getting at the streamlet of fact in a desert of verbiage. 1874C. A. Davis in Spurgeon Treas. David IV. 350 The streamlet of practical daily effort. |
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