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 trick·le /ˈtrɪkəl/
 滴,細流(vi.)滴流,細細地流(vt.)使滴,使細流

 Tric·kle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling ]  To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
    His salt tears trickled down as rain.   --Chaucer.
 Fast beside there trickled softly down
 A gentle stream.   --Spenser.

 Tric·kle n. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
    Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.    --James Bryce.
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 trickle
      n : flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of
          liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, dribble]
      v : run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream;
          "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose";
          "reports began to dribble in" [syn: dribble, filter]