flit

Word family

flit /flɪt/ verb (flitted, flitting) [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]

FAST/QUICKto move lightly or quickly and not stay in one place for very long 轻快地行进，掠过

Birds flitted about in the trees above them.

鸟儿在他们头顶的树枝间飞来飞去。

She seemed to spend her life flitting from one country to another.

她似乎一生都在各国间辗转。

His eyes flitted to his watch.

他瞥了一眼手表。

Examples from the Corpus

flit• In the greenhouse birds flit among the plants.• While Peter Pan may not flit around offering free peanut butter, low-cost foreign peanut growers do offer us their crops.• Women with pallid faces flitted bareheaded through the streets searching for their dead or wounded.• So I watched as he flitted between the front seats of the bus and fingered the synthetic fur around his hood.• My attention flitted here and there.• She flits in and out of people's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her.• Her glance flitted lovingly over his sleeping face.• He lowered his fork and stopped eating, astonished at the idea that had flitted through his mind.

Origin flit

(1100-1200) Old Norse flytja “to carry around”

Chinese

Corpus

BNC: 14682 COCA: 14466

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