英:[spek]
美:[spɛk]
英:[spek]
美:[spɛk]
复数:specks
第三人称单数:specks
现在分词:specking
过去式:specked
过去分词:specked
speckless (adj.)
词根:speck
adj.speckled 有斑点的;如斑点般散布的
specked 有斑点的
speckless 无斑点的;无瑕疵的
v.speckled 点缀(speckle的过去式和过去分词)
specked 弄上斑点(speck的过去分词)
noun (1)
a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay
a very small amount : bit
something marked or marred with specks
verb
transitive verb
to mark (something or someone) with or as if with specks : speckle … the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom … had the effect of a real spirit …—Charlotte Brontë
High up against the horizon were the huge conical masses of hill … with sombre greenish sides visibly specked with sheep …—George Eliot
noun (2)
a cold-smoked Italian ham that is flavored with herbs and spices such as juniper, black pepper, and garlic Speck is deeply red and more firm in texture than prosciutto. Since it's a cured meat, it can be sliced thin and eaten raw in an antipasti platter, wrapped around sweet fruits, or layered on sandwiches.—Emma Christensen Diaphanous sheets of speck and pucks of fried trotters are piled onto picturesque salumi platters.—Garrett Snyder By the time Roman agronomist Cato the Elder wrote his famous treatise on agriculture around 160 BC, the techniques for salt-curing ham he describes were well established, the precursor of today's prosciutto and speck.—Steven Raichlen
Speck, like prosciutto, is a salt- and air-cured and aged pork hind leg. Unlike prosciutto, speck is cold-smoked, which makes it rare among Italian cured meats.—Allison Batdorff
a speck of一点点
这组词都有“粒,微粒”的意思,其区别是:
particle指任何物质的微粒,引申指任何小的部分。
atom指元素的最小粒子,其体积比molecule小。
grain通常指能为肉眼清楚看到的颗粒,比上述几个词所表“粒”的体积大。
speck一般指“微点”或“微粒”,可引申指“斑点、污点”。
molecule指物质中保持原物质的一切化学性质,能独立存在的最小微粒,即分子。
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中古英语 spekke, speckke,源自古英语 specca “小斑点或污渍”,一个起源不明的词语; 可能与荷兰语 speckel “斑点,斑纹”、中古荷兰语 spekelen “洒水”有关(比较 speckle(v.))。“微小的一点”这个意思发展于公元1400年左右。作为动词,“在斑点上标记或染色”,14世纪晚期(隐含于 spekked “有斑点的,有斑纹的”)从名词中衍生而来。相关: Specked。
斑点
Noun (1) Middle English specke, from Old English specca Verb derivative of speck >entry 1 Noun (2) borrowed from a regional German (South Tyrol/Alto Adige) form of German Speck "bacon, bacon fat, blubber," going back to Old High German spec, going back to Germanic *spika- (whence also Old English spic "fat meat, bacon," Old Saxon spek, Middle Dutch spec, Old Icelandic spik "blubber"), probably going back to Indo-European *spig-, whence also, from Indo-Iranian *sphig-, Sanskrit sphij-, sphik "hip, buttock," Khotanese phajsai "his rump" (with secondary a from i), Ossetic syʒ/siʒæ "backside, bottom" Note: The Indo-Iranian etymon has been taken as *sp(h)h1-g-, a root extension from the verbal base *speh1- "thrive, prosper" (see speed >entry 1), though this would exclude the connection with Germanic *spika-. Alternatively, both the Germanic and Indo-Iranian have been seen as outcomes of an original paradigm *sphh1i-ég-, *sphh1i-g-ós, with the verb *speh1- taken as *spheh1i̯-. For details see M. Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, 2. Band, p. 777; J. Rasmussen, Studien zur Morphophonemik der Indogermanischen Grundsprache (Innsbruck, 1989), pp. 38-39, 62; H.W. Bailey, Dictionary of Khotan Saka (Cambridge, 1979), p. 259.
The first known use of speck was before the 12th century
specsplural noun
glass entry 1 sense 2b
speck1 of 2noun
a small spot or blemish
a very small amount : bit
just a speck more milk
speck2 of 2verb
to make specks on or in
speckle1 of 2noun
a small mark (as of color)
speckle2 of 2verb
to mark with speckles
speckle1 of 2noun
a small mark (as of color)
speckle2 of 2verb
to mark with speckles
speck1 of 2noun
a small spot or blemish
a very small amount : bit
just a speck more milk
speck2 of 2verb
to make specks on or in
1 Now this modernist gem at 1 Mount Darwin Court has just popped up on the market again, this time asking a speck under $2.7 million.
2 The moderator, a slim guy with hair that looks like it has been glued into place, brushes a speck off his tuxedo, adjusts his red-striped tie, and begins speaking right on cue.
3 The shell was a speck now, the oars catching the sun in spaced glints, as if the hull were winking itself along him along.
4 Billy leaned forward and brushed a speck of dust off his shoes.
比利俯身擦掉了鞋子上的一丝灰尘。
5 Cole watched as the boat faded to a mere speck outside the bay, then he reached down and picked up a rock.
6 All that day and into the evening, Met Lab associates streamed into room 405 of the Jones Lab to peer through the microscope at the pink speck.
7 Trying to stretch it out, give the tinker just enough to stay in the vicinity and not a speck more.
8 His flock was a blur of white specks and faraway tinklings.
9 I longed to point out to him that it was an actual impossibility to clean a much-used room to the point where no speck of dust remained, but that would have been suicide.
10 At every dawn and every dusk they saw the eagle soaring between the peaks, no more than a speck in the vastness of the sky.
11 He sniffs every speck of dirt and every tree, happy to be outside.
12 “Very latest model. Only came out last month,” said Flint carelessly, flicking a speck of dust from the end of his own.
13 “Yours looks all right. I’m eating mine even though it’s vile”—her tongue licked a speck of cereal off the corner of her mouth—“because I need nourishment to take charge on our journey.”
14 I kept my eyes planted on the floor, counting the specks of mud and lint.
15 Not that I actually got a speck of attention on my birthday.
16 A very small piece or part; a tiny portion or speck.
微粒非常小的块或部分; 一小份儿或一小点儿.
17 He’s wearing these real nice shoes made of leather, I think they’re called penny loafers, and they don’t have a speck of dirt on them.
18 He squinted, trying to see minute specks that might be people.
19 She says, “Ruth May, sugar, you don’t have a speck of business with the Jeune Mou-Pro, so when you see them, why, you run on into the house.”
20 We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust.
3 细粒
4 斑点
spotty punctation spot cloud patch stain splash freak blob fleck freckle spatter macula splotch hickey brindle nevus mottle sculpin punctum plash maculation blotch speckle dapple freckling mark marking point blot Mark blemish lentiginous pop punctuation measles tache naevus lentigo nite spot
5 玷污
stained profanation maculation stain poison blemish pollute disgrace blot smudge slur tarnish defile sully desecrate speckle besmear slubber maculate imbrue flyblow
6 产生斑点
7 小颗粒
8 微粒
fine-grained fine-grain f.g. thinnings particle molecule atom pearl particulate granule fleck mote corpuscle atomy atomic homogenized corpuscular grain scintilla corpuscule
9 加斑点
12 缺点
imperfect failure liability vice fault weakness defect deficiency flaw objection drawback stigma imperfection blot frailty demerit weak point out spot hole strike crack shortage failing blemish gall infirmity defection tache down-side take-off nite spot
13 有污点
14 粒子
15 小片
scrap smithereens odd-come-short bit chip tablet particle pearl rag snip fleck morsel fritter thrum gobbet ort morceau scutellum skerrick sippet
16 肥肉
17 污点
black spot soil stain spill splash blur mar smear blemish blot grime discoloration smudge taint slur tarnish sully spatter smut smooch mote splotch smirch soilure maculation a blot on escutcheon mark scar defect blotch black mark pick cloud flick mackle smutch nite spot
18 少量
some short bite-sized wheen drop spot taste inch dose bite snack ounce handful fraction dash sprinkle scatter quantum shred rag tad mite crumb dab relish dribble tot Nip jot nibble dram dollop mouthful hoot trifle morsel sprinkling scattering smattering modicum paucity noggin pittance smidgen daub littleness smidgeon drib soupcon pennyworth driblet skerrick little gnat's heel dribs and drabs red cent pinch of some little
20 脂肪
unguinous fatty aliphatic fat liver flesh grease lipase fatness adipsin sebaceous sebum schmaltz
21 些微
nominal pygmy any damn molecule suspicion rap shred relish modicum tittle thimbleful smidgeon soupcon
22 使产生斑点