dimple

• vt. 使起漣漪；使現酒窩
• n. 酒窩；漣漪；淺凹
• vi. 出現酒窩；起漣漪

詞源同dip, 浸。引申詞義小洞，酒窩。

dimple

dimple: [13] Dimple originally meant ‘pothole’, and was not applied to an ‘indentation in the flesh’ until the 14th century. There is no surviving record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed, as *dympel; Old High German had the cognate tumphilo, ancestor of modern German tümpel ‘pool, puddle’. Both go back to a Germanic *dump-, which may be a nasalized version of *d(e)up-, source of English deep and dip.
=> deep, dip

dimple (n.)

c. 1400, perhaps existing in Old English as a word meaning "pothole," perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz, which has yielded words in other languages meaning "small pit, little pool" (such as German Tümpel "pool," Middle Low German dümpelen, Dutch dompelen "to plunge"). Related: Dimples.

dimple (v.)

1570s (implied in dimpled), from dimple (n.).

1. She had a dimple which appeared when she smiled.

她一笑就現出酒窩。

來自《權威詞典》

2. But she smiled instead and the dimple crept into her cheek.

但她還是裝出滿臉笑容,一副逗人憐愛的模樣.

來自飄（部分）

3. That's a dimple in her cheek.

她的臉龐上有個笑窩.

來自劍橋少兒英語口語入門

4. The composite displays the fracture features of the dimple and intergranular fracture.

複合材料的斷裂形貌為韌窩加沿晶斷裂.

來自互聯網

5. SINK: Surface discontinuity, depression or dimple caused by non - uniform material shrinkage.

凹槽: 由材料收縮不一致引起的表麵中斷,下陷,凹洞.

來自互聯網