Front | wrinkle |
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Pron | ['rɪŋkl] |
Back | 【WRINKLE】 She is beginning to get many wrinkles around her eyes. 她眼睛四周开始长出很多皱纹。 【重点词汇】 wrinkle n. 皱纹 |
Vocab | wrinklea slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
If you work to iron a stubborn wrinkle out of your shirt, you're trying to smooth out a crease. A wrinkle is a dent or line where that smoothness is interrupted. You might fret about a wrinkle in your skirt or a new wrinkle on your face. Another kind of wrinkle is more figurative: a small complication or problem that arises suddenly. You could describe a torrential rain storm as a wrinkle in your plan to film a sunny scene in your movie, for example. The Old English root is gewrinclod, "wrinkled, crooked, or winding," and it comes from the verb wrinclian, "to wind." All forms of 'wrinkle' will appear on average once every 468 pages. wrinkle wrinkled wrinkleless unwrinkled |
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