wick是什么意思？

wick

英[wɪk] 美[wɪk]

• n. 蜡烛芯，（油灯的）灯芯，<英俚>不断烦扰某人，激怒某人；

复数：wicks;

例句

• The boss gets on my wick with his everlasting complaints about timekeeping. And he thinks nothing of rolling up to the office at ten o’clock himself. 上司总是抱怨说我们不守时,真令我烦透了。可是他对自己10点钟才到办公室却一点也不在乎。
• She’s always talking about herself—she gets on my wick. 她总是在谈论自己,这真让我恼火。
• It’s very hard to turn the wick up and down. 这灯芯很难旋上旋下。
• It's very hard to turn the wick up and down. 这灯芯很难旋上旋下.
• She's always talking about herself — she gets on my wick. 她总是在谈论自己,这真让我恼火.
• It is the handwheel adjustment of the kerosene stove wick. 这是煤油炉炉芯的手轮调节处.
• Wick: It takes a lot of people to make a coliseum. 成功需要众人的共同努力,然而失败只需一两个人的捣乱.
• The Professor was beginning to get on Molly's wick. 教授快要把莫莉惹毛了。

词组

• dip one's wick
  (vulgar slang)(of a man) have sexual intercourse (粗俚)（男子）性交，交媾
• get on someone's wick
  (Brit. informal)annoy someone (英，非正式)激怒某人，使某人恼怒

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  蜡烛芯
  The wick of a candle is the piece of string in it which burns when it is lit.
• N-COUNT
  （煤油灯的）灯芯;（打火机的）棉芯
  The wick of 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 something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  例句
  The Professor was beginning to get on Molly's wick. 教授快要把莫莉惹毛了。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  (油灯的)灯芯
  It’s very hard to turn the wick up and down. 这灯芯很难旋上旋下。
  <英俚>不断烦扰某人;激怒某人
  She’s always talking about herself—she gets on my wick. 她总是在谈论自己,这真让我恼火。 The boss gets on my wick with his everlasting complaints about timekeeping. And he thinks nothing of rolling up to the office at ten o’clock himself. 上司总是抱怨说我们不守时,真令我烦透了。可是他对自己10点钟才到办公室却一点也不在乎。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
  2. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame