英语释义

1. a sudden blow or thrust poke

2. a small amount

3. a gentle touch or stroke pat

4. daub

5. to strike or touch lightly pat
dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief

6. to apply lightly or irregularly daub
dab paint

7. to make a dab

8. flatfish especially any of several flounders (genus Limanda, especially L. limanda) — compare sand dab

9. a skillful person

10. Dictionary of American Biography

11. to lightly touch (something) usually with quick, small motions

12. to put something on something with quick, small motions

13. a small amount
Add a dab of butter.

14. a light quick touch

15. to strike or touch lightly
Dabbing at his streaming nose, Filch squinted unpleasantly at Harry …
— J. K. Rowling, Chamber of Secrets

16. to apply with light or uneven strokes She dabbed on more paint.

片语

finger dabbing姆指按印

brush dabbing鬃刷拍毛

dabbing motion拍毛装置

dab hand能手，内行

dabbing brush拍毛刷

英汉例句

• You can check the temperature of the chocolate by dabbing a small amount of it on your lip or the inside of your wrist.

  你可以在唇上或手腕内侧轻搽少量的巧克力以验明它的温度。

• Fry said. Often, people try to mitigate that problem by putting out bowls of potpourri or dabbing essential oils on light bulbs.

  Fry说，通常人们会通过摆放几盘百花香或者在灯泡上涂精油来缓解这个情况。

• Apply lipstick by dabbing with your finger to create the shape. The colour will look far more natural.

  用手指蘸着唇膏画出唇线，这样唇线看上去更自然。

• By the close of the film, which incorporates a long interview with her husband, she was dabbing a handkerchief to her face.

  在影片快结束时，有一大段对她丈夫的采访，她拿着一块手帕不断轻轻擦着眼泪。

• "Oh, we「ll COME quietly, " the Savage answered, dabbing alternately a cut lip, a scratched neck, and a bitten left hand.

  「哦，我们会好好来的，」野人回答，依次轻轻拍着自己划破的嘴唇、抓伤的脖子和挨咬的左手。

• Don」t blow your nose on a napkin. Napkins are for dabbing your lips and only for that.

  千万别用你餐巾擤鼻涕，那可只是为了擦嘴巴準备的。

• John, dabbing at an injury on his chin that wouldn't stop bleeding, walked in on his wife striking the man on his head with a wooden spoon.

  轻擦着下巴上一直流血的伤口，挡住了他妻子打向修理工头部的木调羹。

• She was crying and dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief.

  她一边哭一边用手绢轻按眼睛。

• Apologizing is supposed to be like dabbing healing balm on a wound caused by a broken relationship.

  道歉被认为是像把一把盐撒在伤口上，会引起关系的破裂。

相似词

dig挖掘

jab戳，刺，捅；（尤指用拳）猛击；（英，非正式）皮下注射（尤指接种疫苗），预防针；刺痛的感觉（或感情）；批评，攻击

lunge猛沖，猛扑；刺，戳；用驯马索训练

poke刺，捅；戳；拨开

相反词

amateur业余爱好的；业余的；外行的；不熟练的

inexpert不熟练的，不内行的

nonexpert非专家