flit

vi. 掠过；轻快地飞；移居

n. 轻快的飞行；搬家

n. (Flit)人名；(俄)弗利特

中文词源

flit 轻掠，掠过

来自PIE*pleu, 浮动，飘动，词源同fleet, float, pluvial. 或直接来自辅音丛bl, fl, 折腾，拍打，拟声词，词源同flap, flabby,flag.

flit: flit: see float
flit (v.): c. 1200, flitten, flytten, flutten "convey, move (a thing) from one place to another, take, carry away," also intransitive, "go away, move, migrate," from Old Norse flytja "to remove, bring," from Proto-Germanic *flutjan- "to float," from extended form of PIE *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Intransitive sense "move lightly and swiftly" is from early 15c.; from c. 1500 as "remove from one habitation to another" (originally Northern English and Scottish)
Theire desire ... is to goe to theire newe masters eyther on a Tewsday, or on a Thursday; for ... they say Munday flitte, Neaver sitte. [Henry Best, farming & account book, 1641]
Related: Flitted; flitting. As a noun, "a flitting, a removal," from 1835.

flit轻快地移动。flutter飘动,振翅飞舞(双写t加-er,表示反复动作。fleet快速的,敏捷的。trip旅行。traipse长途跋涉,令人疲惫的步行。难道是trip得快要死了才叫做traipse?2. fleet => flit.

5. A few colourful dragon - flies even carne to flit over the puddles in the tenement yard.: 连大杂院里的水坑上也来了几个各色的蜻蜓.