riffle
美音:
[´rıfəl
]英音:
[´rıfəl
]n.浅滩,湍流,涟漪,洗牌动作 vt.使起涟漪,迅速洗牌 vi.流过浅滩,成涟漪.迅速翻书
难易程度:
riffle为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
动词过去式:riffled 过去分词:riffled 现在分词:riffling 第三人称单数:riffles
riffle
/'rɪfl; `rɪfl/ v
1 [Tn] shuffle (playing-cards) by holding part of the pack in each hand and releasing cards alternately so that they form one pack again 洗(纸牌)(搀和整理).
2 (phr v) riffle through sth turn the pages of (a book, etc) quickly and casually 迅速而随意地翻动(书等)的页.
n (US)
1 (stretch of) choppy water in a stream, caused by a rocky shoal or shallow (礁石、浅滩或浅水处的)急流, 湍流, 湍急流段.
2 shoal or shallow 浅滩; 浅水处.
riffle
v alsoriffle through [T][
Date: 1700-1800;
Origin: Perhaps from ripple + ruffle]
to move and quickly look at pieces of paper or the pages of a book, magazine etc
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flip through He riffled through the papers on his desk.