各种英文单词“光”的区别

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Dazzle, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glisten, glister, glow, beam, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle, wink以上单词都有"发光"的意思,在实际运用中有的相互间差别很大,有的很难区分。本文拟浅议以上"发光"词的准确用法。

flicker一词正是"发出微光",指"光线很弱好似微微晃动一样"。由这个词我立即想到glitter, glow, gleam等同类词,再一回忆又想出了若干,最后借助thesaurus得出了以下英文词汇发光列表:

2. flash: to shine suddenly and brightly for a short time, or to make something shine in this way; If a light flashes or if you flash a light, it shines with a sudden bright light, especially as quick, regular flashes of light. 例:Lightning flashed overhead.

Flash是快速地发出强光,意为"闪光",是闪光一族的普通 意义,后文还有多个闪光词汇。

3. flicker: to burn or shine with an unsteady light that goes on and off quickly; If a light or flame flickers, it shines unsteadily. 例:The overhead lights flickered momentarily. Flicker也是闪光,但是与flash闪得不同。Flash是闪出强 光,闪一下马上消失,再接着闪出强光,比如打雷之前的闪电就 是典型的flashflicker也是"闪光门"高手,可是它只能闪出不

太强的光,并且极不稳定,闪光时忽明忽暗,译为"闪烁、摇曳" 这个词很浪漫,总令人想到Casablanca中迷人的汽车旅馆和那 对恋人一起试过的那个long, hot summer's night.

sparkle: to shine in small bright flashes; to shine brightly with small flashes of lightIf something sparkles, it is clear and bright and shines with a lot of very small points of light.例:sparkling eyesHer jewellery sparkled in the candle lightThe sea sparkled in the sunThe crystal chandelier sparkled. 这是"发火花, 闪耀"之意,特指星星点点的闪光,比如春节 放烟火时,夜空中盛开的各式烟火图案就可以称作sparkling fireworks patterns,区别于glow, glitter等,特指"数量多"

16. twinkle: if a star or light twinkles, it shines in the dark with an unsteady light; to shine with a light that keeps changing from bright to faint to bright again

例:Stars twinkled in the sky. twinkling lights in the distance

"天上的星星不说话,地上的娃娃想妈妈,天上的星星眨呀眨,妈妈的心呀鲁冰花" 小时候听过这首歌,因此对于星星眨眼睛印象特别深刻。这个眨眼睛就一定是twinkle了,不过人眨眼睛时可以说wink,星星就不可以。远处的灯光忽明忽暗,也说twinkle。比如农村人迷信,说看到了""一闪一闪的(那其实是死人骨头中的磷遇空气中的氧而自燃,有动物衔着骨头走动因此看起来是一闪一闪的)。

1. dazzle: If a very bright light dazzles you, it stops you from seeing properly for a short time. 例:a deer dazzled by the headlights

Dazzle"刺眼、晃眼"的意思,特别当光线照得人短时间看不清物体时使用,与下文其他的"刺眼"选手颇有区别。

4. glare: to shine with a very strong bright light which hurts your eyes; If the sun or a light glares, it shines with a very bright light which is difficult to look at; 例:The sun glared down on us.


这个已经不是闪光门弟子了,这是发出非常耀眼的光芒,让眼睛产生不适,且不适效果大大高dazzle,有可能出现较长时间的失明。比如氧焊时,如果不戴眼罩看了那种强烈的白光后, 好一会儿看不见东西,那就是一种glaring light, dazzling light历害多了。

5. gleam: to shine softly [= glimmer]; If an object or a surface gleams, it reflects light because it is shiny and clean. 例:His teeth gleamed under his moustache Blue-white moonlight gleamed through the window,throwing the shadows of the bars across the floor. 淡蓝色的月光透过窗户照进房来,窗条的影子斜斜地映在地板上。

Gleam"发出微光",其微弱程度与下文要提及的glimmer 同,似乎在写作中二者完全可以互换使用,不过“柯林斯”字典 告诉我们,glimmer的光有点unsteady,类似于flickergleam 是稳定的光线,不会晃动。

6. glimmer: If something glimmers, it produces or reflects a faint, gentle, often unsteady light; to shine with a light that is not very bright [= gleam]: a weak, glimmering light

朗文字典认为glimmer等于gleam,但是柯林斯和牛津皆认为glimmer含有unsteady之意,是to shine with a faint unsteady light因此一定要与gleam区别开来。glimmerflicker相近,也有“光线晃动”之意,但是没有flicker那么"摇曳"得历害: A beam of gleaming light 一道微弱的光线

A beam of glimmering light 一束昏暗、摇曳的光线

7. glint: if a shiny surface glints, it gives out small flashes of light [= sparkle]; If something glints, it

produces or reflects a quick flash of light. (WRITTEN);= glisten; to produce small bright flashes of light: 例:The sea glinted in the moonlightThe sun glinted on the windowsThe gold rims of his spectacles glinted in the sun.

该词使用场景描述:一群孩子在草丛中玩耍时,突然一个小孩惊叫起来,"看呀,前边草丛里有东西在发亮"。众人走近一看,原来是一只银戒指;夏日某夜,有淡淡的月光,四周万籁俱寂, 我心事重重,独自来到沙滩上,看着黑黝黝的海水,听着潮涨潮落出神。月亮渐升渐高,月入中天之时,月光不如先前一样昏暗,海面一下子亮了起来,我看见涨潮的时候,海边奔涌着浅灰色的 浪花。

以上两个场景是我臆想的,都适用glint这个词。Glint的关键点是"闪(泛)着微光",并且光线在变幻,我想到了李莫愁的"冰魄银针"在阳光下发出幽蓝幽蓝的光芒,煞是瘆人,这就是glinting的光;小龙女的"玉蜂针"一定不是这种光,而是一种明亮得多的光,可用glowing或者glittering突发奇想,glint是否有消极、否定之意呢?比如李莫愁是坏人,她的暗器就发glinting的光,而小龙女是好人,并且这么多人喜爱她,因此她的暗器就不会发出glinting的光。呵呵,这纯属子虚乌有,又是我胡思乱想罢了。

8. glitter: to shine brightly with flashing points of light [= sparkle]to shine brightly with little flashes of light, like a diamond SYN sparkle 例:The ceiling of the cathedral glittered with goldThe river glittered in the sunlight.

Glitter一听就比glint, gleam, glimmer等感觉要好,“阳气”要大得多,是积极的、明亮的,正大光明的。其发光比较亮丽,常用于阳光照射下物体反光

9. glisten: to shine and look wet or oily; If something glistens, it shines, usually because it is wet


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