Synonyms: flash, gleam, glance, glint, sparkle, glitter, glisten, shimmer, glimmer, twinkle, scintillate
【美国传统字典】
These verbs mean to send forth light.
这些动词都指发光。
Flash refers to a sudden and brilliant but short-lived outburst of light:
A bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon.
Flash指的是突然的、明亮的、稍纵即逝的一道光：
一道闪电划过地平线。
Gleam implies transient or constant light that often appears against a dark background:
The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more (Samuel Beckett).
Gleam意味着光是转瞬即逝的、或者是持续不断的，一般都在黑暗的背景中出现：
光闪了一瞬，然后又是黑夜。
Glance refers most often to light reflected obliquely:
Moonlight glanced off the windows of the darkened building.
Glance大多指斜反射的光：
月光从那漆黑的大楼的玻璃上反射出来。
Glint applies to briefly gleaming or flashing light:
Rays of sun glinted among the autumn leaves.
Glint指短暂的微光或闪光：
阳光在秋叶间闪烁。
Sparkle suggests a rapid succession of little flashes of high brilliance (crystal glasses sparkling in the candlelight), and glitter, a similar succession of even greater intensity (jewels glittering in the display case).
Sparkle是指连续的、快速的高亮度的小闪光（水晶玻璃在烛光中闪耀），glitter是相似的连续闪光，但是光的强度更大（珠宝在陈列箱中熠熠生辉）。
To glisten is to shine with a sparkling luster:
The snow glistened in the dawn light.
Glisten是指以闪烁的光泽发亮：
雪在黎明的曙光中闪闪发亮。
Shimmer means to shine with a soft, tremulous light:
Everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly, as if her dress had been woven out of candle-beams (Edith Wharton).
Shimmer意味着发出着柔和的、颤动的光线：
她周围的事物都发出了柔和的光，仿佛她的裙子是用烛光织成的。
Glimmer refers to faint, fleeting light:
On the French coast, the light/Gleams, and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,/Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay (Matthew Arnold).
Glimmer指的是微弱的、稍纵即逝的光：
在法国海岸线上，光/微闪，又消逝；英格兰的悬崖，/微微发光，巍然屹立，凸显在这宁静的海湾。
To twinkle is to shine with quick, intermittent flashes or gleams:
a few stars, twinkling faintly in the deep blue of the night sky (Hugh Walpole).
Twinkle意味着快速的、断断续续的闪光或微光：
几颗星星，在深蓝的夜空中微微闪烁。
Scintillate is applied to what flashes as if emitting sparks in a continuous stream:
ammonium chloride... depositing minute scintillating crystals on the windowpanes (Primo Levi).
Scintillate指的是物体的闪光，好像在连续不断地释放着火花：
氯化铵...在窗玻璃上凝结成闪烁的、十分细小的晶体。
These verbs mean to send forth light.
这些动词都指发光。
Flash refers to a sudden and brilliant but short-lived outburst of light:
A bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon.
Flash指的是突然的、明亮的、稍纵即逝的一道光：
一道闪电划过地平线。
Gleam implies transient or constant light that often appears against a dark background:
The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more (Samuel Beckett).
Gleam意味着光是转瞬即逝的、或者是持续不断的，一般都在黑暗的背景中出现：
光闪了一瞬，然后又是黑夜。
Glance refers most often to light reflected obliquely:
Moonlight glanced off the windows of the darkened building.
Glance大多指斜反射的光：
月光从那漆黑的大楼的玻璃上反射出来。
Glint applies to briefly gleaming or flashing light:
Rays of sun glinted among the autumn leaves.
Glint指短暂的微光或闪光：
阳光在秋叶间闪烁。
Sparkle suggests a rapid succession of little flashes of high brilliance (crystal glasses sparkling in the candlelight), and glitter, a similar succession of even greater intensity (jewels glittering in the display case).
Sparkle是指连续的、快速的高亮度的小闪光（水晶玻璃在烛光中闪耀），glitter是相似的连续闪光，但是光的强度更大（珠宝在陈列箱中熠熠生辉）。
To glisten is to shine with a sparkling luster:
The snow glistened in the dawn light.
Glisten是指以闪烁的光泽发亮：
雪在黎明的曙光中闪闪发亮。
Shimmer means to shine with a soft, tremulous light:
Everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly, as if her dress had been woven out of candle-beams (Edith Wharton).
Shimmer意味着发出着柔和的、颤动的光线：
她周围的事物都发出了柔和的光，仿佛她的裙子是用烛光织成的。
Glimmer refers to faint, fleeting light:
On the French coast, the light/Gleams, and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,/Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay (Matthew Arnold).
Glimmer指的是微弱的、稍纵即逝的光：
在法国海岸线上，光/微闪，又消逝；英格兰的悬崖，/微微发光，巍然屹立，凸显在这宁静的海湾。
To twinkle is to shine with quick, intermittent flashes or gleams:
a few stars, twinkling faintly in the deep blue of the night sky (Hugh Walpole).
Twinkle意味着快速的、断断续续的闪光或微光：
几颗星星，在深蓝的夜空中微微闪烁。
Scintillate is applied to what flashes as if emitting sparks in a continuous stream:
ammonium chloride... depositing minute scintillating crystals on the windowpanes (Primo Levi).
Scintillate指的是物体的闪光，好像在连续不断地释放着火花：
氯化铵...在窗玻璃上凝结成闪烁的、十分细小的晶体。
