英语词汇“slither”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

slither

/ˈslɪðə

verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]

1Move smoothly over a surface with a twisting or oscillating motion: I spied a baby adder slithering away...

A variety of snakes twisted and slithered across his shoulders down to his fingertips as if they had a life of their own.
The ship seems to slither and move as if it's alive.
Then, above our heads soared three eagles, and not long after, an adder slithered calmly between our feet.

1.1Slide or slip unsteadily on a loose or slippery surface: we slithered down a snowy mountain track...

Envelopes are rapidly slithering and sliding across the floor and plastic bags can be seen floating upwards as if they were balloons.
Just up the hill beyond, up which our wheels slithered and slid, we left the van at the roadside and unloaded the god-goodies we'd picked up in the small town on the way.
We watched spellbound as they rolled around in the deep mud, then slithered and slid up the muddy bank before playfully pushing each other back down the slope.

Synonyms

slide, slip, glide, glissade;

squirm, wriggle, snake, worm, slink, creep, crawl;

skid

noun

1 [in singular] A slithering movement: a snake-like slither across the grass...

He dapples the piece with shadow, signs his name in a loose-wristed slither and slides the book forward.
Each rock was chosen and placed very precisely so that the pace of the water would change from a slither to a surge at various points along the waterfall's course.
Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone.

2British informal A sliver: a slither of bacon...

I walked down the dark hallway, only lit by slithers of light from cracks between the stones of the wall.
Nick's meal came served in a huge bowl: a wonderful-looking salad, full of green leaves, pepper slithers and chunks of tomato crowned with a big hunk of chicken.
Cured bresaola with goats' cheese and walnuts and the tagliete gratinate, with its grilled slithers of courgette and tomato, are rustic Italian cooking at its best.

Derivatives

slithery

/ˈslɪðəri

/ adjective ...

So when the rain came down and the tracks got all muddy and slithery, it was a good time to put the X Trail through its paces.
I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves.
But Luskin's own record of slithery parsification forces us to assume that these words are carefully chosen to conceal rather than elucidate.

Origin

Middle English: alteration of the dialect verb slidder, frequentative from the base of slide.

sledge from Old English:
The sledge that is a vehicle used on snow and ice came in the late 16th century from Dutch and is related to sled (Middle English), sleigh (early 18th century), slide (Old English), and slither (Middle English). Sleigh is from Dutch, and was originally adopted in North America. To take for a sleigh ride is a dated slang phrase meaning ‘to mislead’, from the use of sleigh ride for an implausible or false story or a hoax. A sleigh ride could also mean ‘a drug-induced high’—this went with the use of snow for cocaine in white powder form, an early 20th-century use for this Old English word. As a name for what we would now more usually call a sledgehammer, the other sledge is recorded in Old English and goes back to a root meaning ‘to strike’ and related to slay. A sledgehammer is a large, heavy hammer used for jobs such as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts, so to take a sledgehammer to crack a nut is to use a disproportionately forceful means to achieve a simple objective. The expression is recorded in the 1930s, but a decade earlier an American version use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat appears. In the 1970s Australian cricketers started sledging, or making offensive or needling remarks to opposing batsmen in an attempt to break their concentration. The idea behind the term is the crudity and lack of subtlety involved in using a sledge or sledgehammer.

单词	slither
释义	slither /ˈslɪðə / verb [no object, with adverbial of direction] 1Move smoothly over a surface with a twisting or oscillating motion: I spied a baby adder slithering away... A variety of snakes twisted and slithered across his shoulders down to his fingertips as if they had a life of their own. The ship seems to slither and move as if it's alive. Then, above our heads soared three eagles, and not long after, an adder slithered calmly between our feet. 1.1Slide or slip unsteadily on a loose or slippery surface: we slithered down a snowy mountain track... Envelopes are rapidly slithering and sliding across the floor and plastic bags can be seen floating upwards as if they were balloons. Just up the hill beyond, up which our wheels slithered and slid, we left the van at the roadside and unloaded the god-goodies we'd picked up in the small town on the way. We watched spellbound as they rolled around in the deep mud, then slithered and slid up the muddy bank before playfully pushing each other back down the slope. Synonyms slide, slip, glide, glissade; squirm, wriggle, snake, worm, slink, creep, crawl; skid noun 1 [in singular] A slithering movement: a snake-like slither across the grass... He dapples the piece with shadow, signs his name in a loose-wristed slither and slides the book forward. Each rock was chosen and placed very precisely so that the pace of the water would change from a slither to a surge at various points along the waterfall's course. Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone. 2British informal A sliver: a slither of bacon... I walked down the dark hallway, only lit by slithers of light from cracks between the stones of the wall. Nick's meal came served in a huge bowl: a wonderful-looking salad, full of green leaves, pepper slithers and chunks of tomato crowned with a big hunk of chicken. Cured bresaola with goats' cheese and walnuts and the tagliete gratinate, with its grilled slithers of courgette and tomato, are rustic Italian cooking at its best. Derivatives slithery /ˈslɪðəri / adjective ... So when the rain came down and the tracks got all muddy and slithery, it was a good time to put the X Trail through its paces. I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves. But Luskin's own record of slithery parsification forces us to assume that these words are carefully chosen to conceal rather than elucidate. Origin Middle English: alteration of the dialect verb slidder, frequentative from the base of slide. sledge from Old English: The sledge that is a vehicle used on snow and ice came in the late 16th century from Dutch and is related to sled (Middle English), sleigh (early 18th century), slide (Old English), and slither (Middle English). Sleigh is from Dutch, and was originally adopted in North America. To take for a sleigh ride is a dated slang phrase meaning ‘to mislead’, from the use of sleigh ride for an implausible or false story or a hoax. A sleigh ride could also mean ‘a drug-induced high’—this went with the use of snow for cocaine in white powder form, an early 20th-century use for this Old English word. As a name for what we would now more usually call a sledgehammer, the other sledge is recorded in Old English and goes back to a root meaning ‘to strike’ and related to slay. A sledgehammer is a large, heavy hammer used for jobs such as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts, so to take a sledgehammer to crack a nut is to use a disproportionately forceful means to achieve a simple objective. The expression is recorded in the 1930s, but a decade earlier an American version use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat appears. In the 1970s Australian cricketers started sledging, or making offensive or needling remarks to opposing batsmen in an attempt to break their concentration. The idea behind the term is the crudity and lack of subtlety involved in using a sledge or sledgehammer. Rhymes dither, hither, swither, thither, whither, wither, zither
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slither

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slithery

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