The flashing lights mean that the road is blocked. 那闪动的灯光表示此路不通.
A lighthouse was flashing in the distance. 灯塔在远处发出闪烁的光.
Investigators said the gang got the drop on the targets by flashing police badges. 调查人员说,这伙[歹徒]向他们的目标出示警徽以便先发制人
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a short vivid experience
<noun.event> a flash of emotion swept over him the flashings of pain were a warning
sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing
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Flashing \Flash"ing\, n. 1. (Engineering) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also {flushing}.
2. (Arch.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. {Filleting}.
3. (Glass Making) (a) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated. (b) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass. --Knight.
{Flashing point} (Chem.), that degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100[deg] F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to thirty degree above the flashing point of its vapor. Usually called {flash point}.
Flash \Flash\ (fl[a^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flashed} (fl[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flashing}.] [Cf. OE. flaskien, vlaskien to pour, sprinkle, dial. Sw. flasa to blaze, E. flush, flare.] 1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles. --Talfourd.
The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind. --M. Arnold.
A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. --Tennyson.
3. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other. --Shak.
{flash in the pan}, a failure or a poor performance, especially after a normal or auspicious start; also, a person whose initial performance appears augur success but who fails to achieve anything notable. From 4th {pan}, n., sense 3 -- part of a flintlock. Occasionally, the powder in the pan of a flintlock would flash without conveying the fire to the charge, and the ball would fail to be discharged. Thus, a good or even spectacular beginning that eventually achieves little came to be called a flash in the pan.
{To flash in the pan}, to fail of success, especially after a normal or auspicious start. [Colloq.] See under {Flash}, a burst of light. --Bartlett. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Usage: Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.
Perhaps most interesting, at least from a popular view, is that it offers an optimistic view of things at a time when some of the old models are flashing warnings lights and setting off sirens and bells.
Six armed men flashing fake police badges entered a museum and got away with millions of dollars in art by such masters as Dali and Matisse, a museum official said Thursday.
Suddenly, computer alarm lights began flashing in the cabin.
The city's bridge engineers ride in cars equipped with sirens and flashing lights to help them get to the latest bridge crisis.
Brady was on hand Monday morning watching the flashing signals that tracked developments in the stock markets, stock futures, international currency and bond trading not only in the United States but in markets around the world.
Wright opened his speech with a few jokes, flashing his wide grin and saying the lengthy applause had "almost embarrassed me, but not quite." There were more jokes about the welcoming.
Bribery is not uncommon. They are the nouveaux riches of the cities, flashing about in Mercedes cars and frequenting the hard-currency bars, where they are tolerated for the business they bring. And the old reflexes of cheating the state live on.
Elsewhere in the city, convoys of police vehicles with lights flashing drove through the city early Sunday.
Police cars with flashing lights patrolled San Juan streets early today.
Startled residents of the rural Quebec community of Ste-Marie-de-Monnoir saw flashing lights glide over a field and out of sight.
Edward Macheski, a partner with Macheski/Pappas Asset Management in Wilton, Conn., said that "it's a good time to be cautious" because there are some conflicting signals flashing for investors right now.
City Manager Bob Myers says she violated city ordinances by placing colored, plastic flags around her shop and in the trees. She also had flashing neon lights and a sandwich board sign not allowed under local codes.
In those days, large, flashing lights came in only three colors.
Police Chief Richard Wilcox stationed cruisers with lights flashing in front of Town Hall and had officers pull over cars and check for Stockbridge citizens.
While the amount of the decline was small, the weakness was widespread, with seven of the index's 11 individual indicators flashing negative signals.
The 700 Club, a 90-minute daily show with about a half-hour news segment, has been carrying regular reports on the Atlanta anti-abortion protests and flashing the Binghamton telephone number on the screen during the reports.
But it's not the colorful stories of visiting with Prince Philip or fishing with Joe DiMaggio that keep his audience enthralled: It's his flashing fingers.
There was speculation that a soldering iron, used in repairing metal flashing, touched off timbers that originally came down the Mississippi River as flatboats.
Two months after non-Communists took over the government, top officials are flashing Solidarity "V-for-victory" signs, there is talk of developing a market economy, and the new labor minister is on TV telling people prices have to go up.
The floors and walls of the viewing area are mirrors, the ceiling sparkles with flashing neon light bulbs.
He recently returned to his office after a three-week assignment and looked in horror at his flashing computer screen.
Dressed in a turquoise jumpsuit with white barettes in her hair, she takes to the stage of the cruise ship's main deck, and begins a solo performance beneath flashing red and blue lights.
The frisky creatures also scrape loose metal flashing and bash in relatively fragile dock boxes.
Another eccentric scales office buildings in a pink elephant costume and has built a "helimobile," a contraption with wheels, wings, flashing lights and an engine.
In the window of the clearer's Cheapside branch in the City is an electronic tickertape monotonously flashing what its adversaries would claim they knew already - Empty Message.
Television segments showed one man flashing a victory sign as he climbed into the taxi.
The Sunday game needs gusto and panache to survive. Watching Gloucestershire expire limply for 123 last Sunday, I could not imagine even flashing lights giving the bright new world of Sunday cricket some sparkle.
Clinton ignored a flashing red light on the podium signalling that he had exceeded his allotted 15 minutes, and at one point House Speaker Jim Wright, the convention chairman, edged close to remind him to finish up.
I don't get any big sense of `Isn't that awful?"' One reason is few people have a financial interest or understand the commodities markets, with its clubby atmosphere and chaotic shouting, jostling and flashing hand signals.
They pull a cord that triggers a siren and a flashing light to alert repair workers.