资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[i^]k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trickled}
   (tr[i^]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Trickling}
   (tr[i^]k"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen,
   freq. of striken to flow, AS. str[imac]can. See {Strike}, v.
   t.]
   To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

         His salt tears trickled down as rain.    --Chaucer.

         Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream.
                                                  --Spenser.