wick

英 [wɪk]

美 [wɪk]

n.  烛芯; 灯芯

复数：wicks　

GRETEM8

BNC.19612 / COCA.17490

习惯用语

n.

get on sb's wick
• 激怒（某人）；招惹（某人）
  to annoy sb

牛津词典

noun

• 烛芯
  the piece of string in the centre of a candle which you light so that the candle burns
• 灯芯
  the piece of material in an oil lamp which absorbs the oil and which you light so that the lamp burns

柯林斯词典

• 蜡烛芯
  Thewickof a candle is the piece of string in it which burns when it is lit.
• （煤油灯的）灯芯;（打火机的）棉芯
  Thewickof a paraffin lamp or cigarette lighter is the part which supplies the fuel to the flame when it is lit.
• PHRASE 惹怒;激怒
  If you say that someone or somethinggets onyourwick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  1. The Professor was beginning to get on Molly's wick.
     教授快要把莫莉惹毛了。

英英释义

noun

• a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
  Synonym:taper
• any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
  1. the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it

双语例句

• We visited a whole host of places between wick and thurso.
  我们访问了威克和瑟索之间的许多地方。
• A lamp burns and has neither wick nor oil.
  一盏灯烧了起来却没有灯芯也没有灯油。
• Each lamp held a saucer filled with oil and water and a floating wick, and was suspended from the ceiling by means of long metal chains.
  每一只灯有一个装满了灯油和水的浅碟和一个漂浮的灯芯，用长长的金属链从天花板垂下。
• He knows that all those sensations will be pacified with the dissolution of the body, just as the flame of a lamp goes out when oil and wick give out.
  他知道，所有这些感觉会因为身体的解体而变得安静，就像是一盏灯的火焰，当油和灯芯拔出去时就熄灭了。
• Make sure it's a technical fabric such as polypropylene or CoolMax, which wick water and sweat away from your skin.
  确保那件是高科技衣料，比如聚丙烯或Coolmax料的，这类合成料会吸走皮肤上的雨水和汗水。
• Like thousands of Candle burning, faint flame ablation in Zhu Lei, the failure to burn the wick to stay is not seen signs of incurable trauma.
  像燃烧了千年的红烛，微弱的火光消融在烛泪中，未能燃尽的灯芯留的是不见痕迹、无法治愈的创伤。
• The equipment required consists of two mercury thermometers, and one cloth wick.
  所需设备包括两个水银温度计和一个布条。
• A wick connects it to a reservoir.
  一灯芯绳把它与水槽相连。
• It is the handwheel adjustment of the kerosene stove wick.
  这是煤油炉炉芯的手轮调节处。
• The keeper's essential task was trimming the lantern wick in order to maintain a steady, bright flame.
  守塔人的基本工作就是修剪灯芯，以便火焰明亮而稳定。