Word of the Day：June 30, 2022

scintillate

發(fā)(出)火花；閃爍

verb /SIN-tuh-layt/ ['s?nt?le?t]

What It Means

Scintillate means 'to dazzle or impress with liveliness or wit.'

Scintillate 的意思是“活潑或機智的、讓人眼花繚亂或給人留下深刻印象”。

SCINTILLATE in Context

“Kimberly Marable's scarred Persephone, torn as Hades' consort between verdant summers above and the steamy underworld below, exudes a lust for life despite all. Her torchy vocals scintillate in 'Livin' It Up on Top,’ a rousing paean to seizing every moment.” — Michael Grossberg, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 18 Nov. 2021

Kimberly Marable's scarred Persephone, torn as Hades' consort between verdant summers above and the steamy underworld below, exudes a lust for life despite all.她炙熱的歌聲在“Livin It Up on Top”中閃爍，這是一首激動人心的、不肯放過每一刻的贊歌。

Her hilarious and topical standup routine absolutely scintillated; the audience brought her back for two encores.

她搞笑的和主題新穎的單口相聲表演絕對令人興奮； 觀眾讓她再來了兩場安可。

Did You Know?

The initial spark of the verb scintillate was the Latin noun scintilla, meaning, well, “spark.” The ember of scintilla in turn developed into the verb scintillāre, “to sparkle.” Scintillate retains this meaning in expressing the action of gleaming, glittery things, as when jewelry or the surface of a lake in full sun scintillates. But the word can and often does mean “to sparkle” in a figurative sense—that is, to dazzle or impress with a brilliant performance—making the word apt for both celestial and cinematic scintillating stars.

最初的 spark of the verb scintillate 是來自拉丁語名詞 scintilla，意思是“spark「火花」”。The ember of scintilla 反過來發(fā)展成動詞 scintillāre，“to sparkle「閃爍」”。 Scintillate 保留了描述閃爍的動態(tài)，閃閃發(fā)光的事物，就像珠寶或陽光下閃爍的湖面一樣。 但這個詞可以，也經常用作比喻手法“to sparkle「閃耀」”——即令人眼花繚亂或給人留下深刻印象的精彩的表演——這個詞既可用于天體，也可用于閃耀的電影明星。

Name That Synonym

Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of scintillate as used in its literal 'sparkle' meaning: _ li _ ten.

glisten