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

Shimmer \Shim"mer\, n.
   A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.

         TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . .
         a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet
         apartment.                               --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

Shimmer \Shim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shimmered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Shimmering}.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to
   sc[=i]mian, sc[=i]man, to glitter, D. schemeren, G.
   schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. sc[=i]ma a light,
   brightness, Icel. sk[=i]ma, Goth. skeima a torch, a lantern,
   and E. shine. [root]157. See {Shine}, v. i.]
   To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine
   faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

         The shimmering glimpses of a stream.     --Tennyson.

资料来源 : WordNet®

shimmer
     n : a weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on
         iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water"
         [syn: {play}]
     v 1: shine with a weak or fitful light; "Beech leaves shimmered
          in the moonlight"
     2: give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk