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

• 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。
• The bulb of a thermometer is covered with a close fitting cotton wick, which is kept wetted with water.
  在温度计的球上，缠着一层配合紧密的棉芯，并用水使其保持湿润。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
  这灯芯很难旋上旋下。
• Therefore, a single-loop CPL system was made and studied in the thesis, in which the porous wick of main was used, and the experimental investigation was carried on into the system performances.
  为此，本文利用简单的干道式毛细芯，设计制作了一个单回路CPL系统，实验研究了该系统的性能。
• A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.
  压伤的芦苇他不折断将残的灯火他不吹灭。
• 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 Professor was beginning to get on Molly's wick.
  教授快要把莫莉惹毛了。