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单词 a-glimmering
释义

a-glimmering

adverb

a-glim·​mer·​ing ə-ˈgli-mər-iŋ How to pronounce a-glimmering (audio)
Phrases
go a-glimmering US
: to fade away to nothingness : to go away or disappear entirely
Whatever chances Hutchins had for a subsequent opening went a-glimmering when he opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's rearmament policies in 1940. Robert A. McCaughey, New York Times Book Review, 3 Sept. 1989
"But nothing will happen," says Henry Aaron, an economist at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "Doing anything costs money, and there isn't any. The budget surplus has gone a-glimmering." David R. Francis, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2002

Word History

Etymology

a- entry 1 + glimmering entry 1

First Known Use

1887, in the meaning defined above

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