flit

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishflitflit /flɪt/ verb (flitted, flitting) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] FAST/QUICKto move lightly or quickly and not stay in one place for very long Birds flitted about in the trees above them. She seemed to spend her life flitting from one country to another. His eyes flitted to his watch.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusflit• In the greenhouse birds flit among the plants.• While Peter Pan may not flit around offering free peanut butter, low-cost foreign peanut growers do offer us their crops.• Women with pallid faces flitted bareheaded through the streets searching for their dead or wounded.• So I watched as he flitted between the front seats of the bus and fingered the synthetic fur around his hood.• My attention flitted here and there.• She flits in and out of people's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her.• Her glance flitted lovingly over his sleeping face.• He lowered his fork and stopped eating, astonished at the idea that had flitted through his mind.Origin flit (1100-1200) Old Norse flytja “to carry around”

单词	flit
释义	flit From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishflitflit /flɪt/ verb (flitted, flitting) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] FAST/QUICKto move lightly or quickly and not stay in one place for very long Birds flitted about in the trees above them. She seemed to spend her life flitting from one country to another. His eyes flitted to his watch.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusflit• In the greenhouse birds flit among the plants.• While Peter Pan may not flit around offering free peanut butter, low-cost foreign peanut growers do offer us their crops.• Women with pallid faces flitted bareheaded through the streets searching for their dead or wounded.• So I watched as he flitted between the front seats of the bus and fingered the synthetic fur around his hood.• My attention flitted here and there.• She flits in and out of people's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her.• Her glance flitted lovingly over his sleeping face.• He lowered his fork and stopped eating, astonished at the idea that had flitted through his mind.Origin flit (1100-1200) Old Norse flytja “to carry around”
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