blink
verb🔊/blɪŋk/
🔊/blɪŋk/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they blink | 🔊/blɪŋk/ 🔊/blɪŋk/ |
| he / she / it blinks | 🔊/blɪŋks/ 🔊/blɪŋks/ |
| past simple blinked | 🔊/blɪŋkt/ 🔊/blɪŋkt/ |
| past participle blinked | 🔊/blɪŋkt/ 🔊/blɪŋkt/ |
| -ing form blinking | 🔊/ˈblɪŋkɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈblɪŋkɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] blink (something)
when you blink or blink your eyes or your eyes blink, you shut and open your eyes quickly 眨眼睛 He blinked in the bright sunlight. 他在强烈的阳光下直眨眼睛。 🔊🔊 Lucy blinked at him in astonishment. 露西惊讶地眨了眨眼。 I'll be back before you can blink (= very quickly). 我眨眼工夫就回来。 🔊🔊 When I told him the news he didn't even blink (= showed no surprise at all). 我把那个消息告诉他时，他眼都没眨一下。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- hard
- furiously
- quickly
- …
- at
- in
- with
- …
- blink away a tear
- blink back tears
- blink your eyes
- …
- [intransitive]
to shine with an unsteady light; to flash on and off 闪烁
Word OriginMiddle English: from blenk, Scots variant of blench, reinforced by Middle Dutch blinken ‘to shine’. Early senses included ‘deceive’, ‘flinch’ (compare with blench), and also ‘open the eyes after sleep’: hence sense (1) (mid 16th cent.).