单词	wick
释义	wick From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Household, Gas, coal, oilwickwick /wɪk/ noun [countable]  1DHthe piece of thread in a candle, that burns when you light it2 DHTPGa long piece of material in an oil lamp, that sucks up oil so that the lamp can burn3 → get on somebody’s wickExamples from the Corpuswick• On successive Sundays he would repeat this ritual until every wick was alight.• Twice, its wick collapses in wax.• Smoke that smelt of churches poured from the wicks, drifted over the slowly heaving ocean, hid their feet.• The flame of the wick was blown down to touch the paraffin in the body of the lamp.• He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick.• With shears from her basket, the Pysillian trimmed the wick, to steady it.• The wick flickered hesitantly, then licked upward into a bright yellow tongue.Origin wick Old English weoce
随便看	its a fact a fact its a fair bet its a fair bet that its a fair cop its a football etc thing its a free country its a girl etc thing its a good job its a good job that its a good thing its a good thing its a good thing that its a little late in the day to do its a long story its a matter of fact its a matter of fact that its a mercy its a mercy that its a music etc thing its a pity that its a pity to do its a safe bet its a safe bet that its a shame a shame etc its a small world

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