flicker是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 闪烁, 摇曳, 闪现，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my room they always light the little lamp before my icon for the night; it gives a feeble flicker of light, but it is strong enough to see by dimly, and if you sit just under it you can even read by it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the strangest thing in the world to see it in the flicker of the flashes soft and white, and then to watch it fade like a wreath of smoke and vanish.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, after weeks and weeks of cautious driving of scattered ele-phants across the hills, the forty or fifty wild monsters were driven into the last stockade, and the big drop gate, made of tree trunks lashed together, jarred down behind them, Kala Nag, at the word of command, would go into that flar-ing, trumpeting pandemonium (generally at night, when the flicker of the torches made it difficult to judge distanc-es), and, picking out the biggest and wildest tusker of the mob, would hammer him and hustle him into quiet while the men on the backs of the other elephants roped and tied the smaller ones.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He soaped the belly with one flicker of a hand-brush, he shaved it and painted it with iodine.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After a time, too, I came to connect these wells with tall towers standing here and there upon the slopes; for above them there was often just such a flicker in the air as one sees on a hot day above a sun-scorched beach.
-- I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly he lifted his face to her, and her heart quickened at the flicker of his voice.
-- A flicker of excitement danced on Gerald's face.
-- A little flicker of rage ran through his blood.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He still smiled faintly down at her, with the flicker of irony in his eyes, and a touch of bitterness.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he smiled, and it was good to see; but when he straightened him- self up like a liberty-pole, and the lightning begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows, you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards.
-- But they sailed into digging anyway by the flicker of the light- ning, and sent a man to the nearest house, a half a mile off, to borrow one.
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