Definition of streak in English:

streak

noun striːkstrik

1A long, thin line or mark of a different substance or colour from its surroundings.
条纹，条痕，色带
a streak of oil
油带。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was neither young nor old, but streaks of grey hair lined his jet-black hair.
- Be sure all wax is completely buffed until hard to avoid smears and streaks.
- Rubbing her face with the palm of her hand and smearing the tear streak, Janet sighed and rose from her bed, thinking about all the things her mother used to tell her.
- Symptoms are pale green new leaves with black streaks between the veins.
- Her cheeks were flushed and tear streaks from her mascara lined them in black rivulets.
- Their heads and faces are plain, without lines or streaks.
- When choosing beef fillet, the outer flesh should be a bright, purplish-red colour laced with thin streaks of white fat.
- Blurry fields of murky browns and grimy grays almost overwhelm the odd streaks and smears of hot lavender and violet, and splashes of blue and green.
- A silver streak lined her neatly pinned hair, though age had not yet made it the dominant color.
- He made some rich dark chocolate and smeared it with streaks of green wasabi that gave it a delicious burn.
- High cirrus clouds form white streaks across its surface and a number of dark storms act as flaws and focus for the eye.
- She let go of his neck, placing her slender fingers on his cheek and tracing his jawbone, a streak of red defining it better.
- Her hand travelled down the glass, smearing a clear streak through the cloudy vapour that formed on the window's face.
- As the shadows grew, long red and violet streaks dashed the clouds.
- Rinse off then give a final wipe over with a weak solution of vinegar and water to produce a sparkling surface free of streaks.
- She had waist-length black hair with bright red streaks and was of medium build.
- They have a thin streak of white scales that extends above their anterior eyes.
- Where the whitewash had peeled away, long streaks of dark wood slashed the walls like welts.
- Solid streaks of cerulean blue or vibrant cyan give the small details she depicts a life that can only be attained through extensive, lucid observation.
- Part of the appeal of these paintings lies in the minute variations between the hand-drawn bands and free-running streaks.
Synonyms
band, line, strip, stripe, vein, slash, bar
ray, finger, pencil, stroke
trace, touch, fleck, dash
technical stria, striation, lane
mark, smear, smudge, stain, blotch
informal splodge, splotch
1. 1.1Microbiology A narrow line of bacteria smeared on the surface of a solid culture medium.
  〔微生物〕（细菌在固体培养基上的）画线
  Example sentencesExamples
  A gradient of UV doses was achieved by uncovering successive sections of the bacterial streaks.
  When the plants were mature, virally infected streaks were excised for RNA extraction.
  DNA was added by touching a sterile pipette tip to one of the bacterial streaks and twirling it briefly in the reaction mix.
  Such streaks do not yield confluent growth on medium without uracil, in contrast to prototrophic recombinants.
  Fresh pullet eggs (White Leghorn Strain) were incubated to obtain the primitive streak stage of development.
2An element of a specified kind in someone's character.
（性格的）特征，倾向
there's a streak of insanity in the family
这个家族有精神病的倾向。
Lucy had a ruthless streak
露西生性有点残忍。
Example sentencesExamples
- Krystal's independent streak bubbled to the surface again.
- Today's reading highlights the jealous streak in his character.
- He was handsome and well-mannered but there was an underlying streak, just under the surface, she didn't like.
- Has there really been an anti-market streak in Indian political culture with the prevalence of Gandhian values and emphasis on group equity and rights?
- Rather, it was a combination of both mental and physical elements that kept the streak alive.
- Her uncle always possessed a materialistic streak to his character, even when it came down to breaks between appointments.
- His violent streak is said to have surfaced following the death of his 20-month-old baby son in 1987.
- He acknowledges she was capricious and had a ruthless streak.
- His ruthless streak was demonstrated when he dumped Burley after a reported disagreement over team selection.
- It's a kind of anti-intellectualism, a streak in contemporary culture that is sceptical of the mature, educated adult - as if to be that is the worst of all possible sins.
- He is known as a courteous man, but with a ruthless streak.
- He remained married and close to his family but despite a narrow streak of puritanism in his make-up, lived openly for years with his mistress, a chorus girl and minor actress, less than half his age.
- The Aberdeen defender is a youngster with a mischievous streak never far from the surface.
- This cultured exterior hides a streak of juvenile depravity.
- Ostensibly, Becky is a figure of feminine fierceness, and perhaps her streak of opportunism is a positive element of her character.
- His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory.
- It's also the pressure of culture and religion which can cause depression or the rebellious streak.
- It's very controversial because there's a strong streak in popular culture that goes back to common law.
- Frye is a double threat on offense; a solid perimeter shooter with a fearless streak.
- Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement.
Synonyms
element, vein, trace, touch, dash, strain
trait, characteristic
1. 2.1usually with adjective A continuous period of specified success or luck.
  （成功或幸运的）一段时间，一阵子
  the theatre is on a winning streak
  剧院这一阵子非常火爆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I've often argued for Castillo, citing a five-year streak of solid OBP numbers, along with good speed, and solid defense.
  It seemed like Ian was always working on some solid streak, as he had six hitting streaks over six games, though none over eleven.
  The team entered last weekend on a season-high six-game losing streak, and it appears other teams are catching up to Minnesota.
  In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time.
  Stock markets will break their three-year losing streak, but the recovery will be unspectacular, Irish business leaders said.
  And the racing fanatic was set to boost his winnings to a massive £2 million jackpot if his lucky streak continued.
  Turning to stocks, the Nasdaq continued its losing streak today.
  They have lost nine matches in a row, and with a batting line-up so inexperienced, that losing streak could well stretch to 13 by the time this tournament is done.
  It was no contest the rest of the way as Dallas avoided its first four-game losing streak in more than three years.
  When he stands next to someone on a winning streak and bets on their numbers, luck leaves the table.
  Only the past two losses in the team's three-game losing streak were winnable.
  I understand that South Carolina, less than a year removed from a 21-game losing streak, is at the top of the East Division.
  This losing streak continued against Trinidad.
  He finished at 283, ending his streak of 40 consecutive stroke-play tournaments under par.
  After an eight-game losing streak earlier this month, their chances of making the postseason were as low as Rogers' popularity with reporters.
  The longer his losing streak continues the less likely he is to leap the final psychological barrier.
  The index fell for a fifth consecutive day on Friday, its longest losing streak in nine months.
  But if that losing streak from last season carries into 2003, all bets are off.
  The solid defense that propelled the winning streak was in top form.
  Will New York's uncanny streak of luck continue?
  Synonyms
  period, spell, stretch, run, time
  series
  British informal patch
3informal An act of running naked in a public place so as to shock or amuse others.
〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑
a streak for charity
为慈善事业而进行的公共场合裸跑。

verb striːkstrik

1with object Cover (a surface) with streaks.
在（表面）布满条纹
tears streaking her face, Cynthia looked up
辛西娅抬起头来，脸上满是泪痕。
his beard was streaked with grey
他的胡子已经花白。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was streaked with tears and his shirt was covered in blood.
- Her eyes were red, and her cheeks were streaked with tears.
- Out on the roof, the sky was black streaked with light.
- Her hair was tousled and fell loosely around her face, which was streaked with what looked to be a combination of ash and dirt.
- Each petal was streaked with brown, wilting from the cold.
- There were bruises and her face was streaked with tears.
- Maria's face was streaked with mascara, and Luke was clenching his fists.
- Outside each, fruit trees, figs and vines were streaked with the ubiquitous dust.
- Her cheeks were streaked with a mixture of tears and mascara.
- The hazy sky was streaked with white clouds.
- Now the front of him was streaked with mud as well.
- Collette's eyes were red and watery, and her face was streaked with tears.
- He uncovered his face, which was streaked with tears.
- The lane is streaked with curvilinear snow, in places trodden into blue ice.
- The sky was streaked with gold and red now, a wonderful sight to comprehend.
- The sky is streaked with blues and pinks, and at the bottom of the frame, the sand is glowing in the fading light.
- All of these windows were streaked with blinds, forbidding the light from entering what lay behind the stoic structure.
- The sun has streaked the front, so it looks more blond and less strawberry.
- The sky was streaked with pink highlights as the sun slowly sank.
- It is the morning of New Year's Eve, 2003, and the sky above my home in Brooklyn is streaked with jet trails, portents of unseen danger.
Synonyms
stripe, band, bar, fleck
technical striate
archaic freak
mark, daub, smear, smudge, stain
informal splodge, splotch
1. 1.1 Dye (hair) with long, thin lines of a different colour to that of one's natural hair colour.
  把（头发）染成条纹状
  with object and complement hair that was streaked blonde
  Example sentencesExamples
  Brushing her long mousy brown-and-grey streaked hair out of her face, she joins the queue behind me.
  A matted clump of gray streaked blond hair sat on his head, looking like it should fall off as he leaned over and stared down at me.
  The robber is described as about 5ft 7ins tall, in his late teens or early 20s, of slim build and with possibly streaked hair.
  He'd be sitting on the kitchen counter most likely, running his hands through his red streaked blonde hair.
  I got up, streaked my hair blue, and put on black pants and a shimmery black spaghetti-strap top.
  His hair isn't streaked blue, or red, or a psychedelic purple.
  ‘It was good,’ she says, from under a thatch of mad, streaked hair.
  Ian's black hair was streaked through with red, giving him a rather intimidating aura despite his small build.
  Across from me, Ashley chuckled and shook her head, causing her white streaked hair to stiffly follow her movements.
  People were showing up with blue hair, green hair, streaked hair, whole works of art painted on their heads.
  She became snobby and rude, and streaked her hair blonde.
  Heldrow shrugged, feeling the hood of his cloak slip down and reveal his blue streaked blond hair.
  Yuki laughed and walked over to pick the twig from Keiko's long raven black and pink streaked hair.
  They'd streak my hair cheap, and they used temporary dye.
  Liz nudged her towards a chair next to a boy with naturally streaked blond hair that was down past his ears.
  I was one of those people who liked to play with hair colors, and today my shoulder length brown hair was streaked red to match my outfit.
  So all he had to do to gain passage into the Vodas Village main Undertunnel was tell his name and peel back the hood on his cloak to show his odd blue streaked blond hair.
2. 1.2Microbiology Smear (a needle, swab, etc.) over the surface of a solid culture medium to initiate a culture.
  〔微生物〕（用针或药签在固体培养基表面）画线（接种细菌）
  swabs were streaked directly on blood agar plates
  Example sentencesExamples
  Strains were streaked on rich medium, and 24 colonies from each strain were randomly isolated and restreaked.
  Transformants were streaked on appropriate omission medium and single colonies were picked for further analysis.
  Deletion suppressors obtained were streaked onto SD medium and incubated at 35.5° for 5 days.
  To determine the presence of yeast in cloacae, swabs were streaked onto Sabouraud's dextrose agar and incubated for 14 days.
  They did germinate on synthetic medium, but were inviable when streaked onto solid rich medium.
2no object, with adverbial of direction Move very fast in a specified direction.
飞跑，疾驰
the cat streaked across the street
那只猫挣脱后飞快地跑过街去。
Example sentencesExamples
- Soon the order was obeyed and six missiles streaked off and into the depth of the fleet.
- Doors flew by me as I streaked down the street, nearly blind in the dark.
- My anger wore off quickly as I walked home, but not before I had unnecessarily kicked a stone hard and barely missed a giant black cat that had streaked past.
- Moss attacks vertically, using his speed to streak downfield and his size and leaping ability to snatch passes away from defenders.
- He came slowly in through the plants, the cat streaking past him in alarm.
- There was a flash of light between them, streaking down so fast Jennifer didn't catch any glare until it was over.
- While Natasha helped her friend up, he streaked after the salamander, which moved surprisingly fast for such a little, young thing.
- A flowing move through six pairs of hands sent Mark Walsh streaking over in the corner but the conversion attempt went inches wide.
- He streaked away into the sky, disappearing from view almost immediately.
- Lightning streaked across the sky, and collected into a huge ball.
- On the streets, cars streaked by with their feral engines roaring and blood-red beams of lights sparkling, like demonic eyes from their exterior.
- While I staggered on, the children streaked ahead, striking up conversations left, right and centre.
- His heart pounding near to bursting, he streaked across the shadowed streets.
- The loading vehicle sped off, streaking down the street until it was out of view.
- He immediately fed senior point guard Chris Hernandez, who was streaking down the right sideline.
- Somehow it missed her head, but pain streaked through her left leg and she couldn't move.
- Thinking it was Jude, she leapt up and streaked across the room.
- They streaked through the streets to highlight what they claimed was cruelty to the bulls.
- Dozens of missiles streaked out of the aircraft.
- An alley cat streaked about the opposite side of the way, catching at a rat of some sort.
Synonyms
race, dash, rush, run, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, go hell for leather, plunge, dive, whisk, scurry, scuttle, scamper, scramble
informal tear, belt, pelt, scoot, zap, zip, whip, step on it, get a move on, hotfoot it, leg it, steam, put on some speed, go like a bat out of hell, burn rubber
British informal bomb, go like the clappers, bucket, put one's foot down
Scottish informal wheech
North American informal boogie, hightail it, clip, barrel, get the lead out
informal, dated cut along
North American vulgar slang drag/tear/haul ass
literary fleet
archaic post, hie, haste
3informal no object Run naked in a public place so as to shock or amuse others.
〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑
the singer admitted to streaking in his home town in the seventies
Example sentencesExamples
- We want to publicise ourselves by basically streaking.
- Two men arrested for streaking naked at a rugby match in Newlands on Saturday would no longer be welcome at the ground, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said yesterday.
- He became famous for such antics as dancing on table tops, enlivening parties by performing bump and grind striptease acts and, once, streaking naked around a swimming pool.
- The rugby league world has been spared the sight of him streaking naked around a pitch for at least another year.
- And in the 1970s, the fad was streaking: running naked through campus.
- People ally themselves with the dead for the same reason they tell fantastic tales or streak naked through the college quad: to command attention.
- At least 20 naked male students streaked past fellow students competing in athletics competition last night.
- He used to enjoy streaking naked around the streets of his hometown and even got stopped by police for committing the lewd prank.
- The door flew open suddenly and two naked blurs streaked past.
- The company has been pushing their new line of running shoes, the most high-profile ad so far being the streaking naked man at the soccer game.

Phrases

like a streak

informal Very fast.
〈非正式〉飞快地，闪电般地
he is off like a streak
他飞快地跑开了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Of all the fish Charlie is always the first to spot your approach, crossing the pool like a streak of greased lightning to stick his head out of the water.
- The shark would probably be off like a streak if he saw a man diving toward him.
- Suddenly she took off, like a streak, straight ahead, and vanished out of sight.
- Then he was off like a streak, running up the hill.
Synonyms
quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at speed, at full speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly

streak of lightning
一道闪电

A flash of lightning.
一道闪电
a streak of lightning split the sky
Example sentencesExamples
- He hadn't yet decided when a loud clap of thunder made him jump, coinciding with a streak of lightning.
- Emma, as if to discount the effects of the sprained ankle, ‘nonplussed her opponents… by dodging here and there with the rapidity of a streak of lightning.’
- She took off after him like a streak of lightning, anger burning away any of her past fears.
- She ignored it, slammed her car door anyway, and flew from the house like a gold streak of lightning.
- It was only afterwards that one of the men said there was no thunder, just a streak of lightning and the tree broke and fell.
- Just then a streak of lightning lit the stairway.
- A streak of lightning hopped from one end of a cloud to another.
- A streak of lightning struck a nearby tree, followed by deafening thunder.
- I was first off the mark as a yellow and black streak of lightning engulfed my lure with a crash that might easily have stopped a dicky heart.
- When a streak of lightning flashes across the sky, you often hear a crack of thunder several seconds later.
Synonyms
bolt, shaft, flash, beam

Derivatives

streaker

noun ˈstriːkəˈstrikər

informal

A person who runs naked in a public place, especially in order to shock or amuse others.
〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑
a streaker ran right across the stage behind the presenter
Example sentencesExamples
- The streakers ran on to the field at the Olympic stadium, and disrupted play until they were caught by security.
- ‘I have had streakers on before, and that has been vaguely amusing,’ said Dickson.
- If there are a few people who are bothered by streaking, should their wish to participate in a campus event without dealing with streakers outweigh everyone else's clearly demonstrated support for streaking?

Origin

Old English strica, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch streek and German Strich, also to strike. The sense 'run naked' was originally US slang.

Rhymes

antique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak

Definition of streak in US English:

streak

nounstrēkstrik

1A long, thin line or mark of a different substance or color from its surroundings.
条纹，条痕，色带
a streak of oil
油带。
Example sentencesExamples
- As the shadows grew, long red and violet streaks dashed the clouds.
- Be sure all wax is completely buffed until hard to avoid smears and streaks.
- She let go of his neck, placing her slender fingers on his cheek and tracing his jawbone, a streak of red defining it better.
- She had waist-length black hair with bright red streaks and was of medium build.
- Where the whitewash had peeled away, long streaks of dark wood slashed the walls like welts.
- High cirrus clouds form white streaks across its surface and a number of dark storms act as flaws and focus for the eye.
- Rubbing her face with the palm of her hand and smearing the tear streak, Janet sighed and rose from her bed, thinking about all the things her mother used to tell her.
- When choosing beef fillet, the outer flesh should be a bright, purplish-red colour laced with thin streaks of white fat.
- Part of the appeal of these paintings lies in the minute variations between the hand-drawn bands and free-running streaks.
- A silver streak lined her neatly pinned hair, though age had not yet made it the dominant color.
- He was neither young nor old, but streaks of grey hair lined his jet-black hair.
- Blurry fields of murky browns and grimy grays almost overwhelm the odd streaks and smears of hot lavender and violet, and splashes of blue and green.
- He made some rich dark chocolate and smeared it with streaks of green wasabi that gave it a delicious burn.
- Her hand travelled down the glass, smearing a clear streak through the cloudy vapour that formed on the window's face.
- Their heads and faces are plain, without lines or streaks.
- Solid streaks of cerulean blue or vibrant cyan give the small details she depicts a life that can only be attained through extensive, lucid observation.
- They have a thin streak of white scales that extends above their anterior eyes.
- Her cheeks were flushed and tear streaks from her mascara lined them in black rivulets.
- Symptoms are pale green new leaves with black streaks between the veins.
- Rinse off then give a final wipe over with a weak solution of vinegar and water to produce a sparkling surface free of streaks.
Synonyms
band, line, strip, stripe, vein, slash, bar
mark, smear, smudge, stain, blotch
1. 1.1Microbiology A narrow line of bacteria smeared on the surface of a solid culture medium.
  〔微生物〕（细菌在固体培养基上的）画线
  Example sentencesExamples
  DNA was added by touching a sterile pipette tip to one of the bacterial streaks and twirling it briefly in the reaction mix.
  When the plants were mature, virally infected streaks were excised for RNA extraction.
  Fresh pullet eggs (White Leghorn Strain) were incubated to obtain the primitive streak stage of development.
  A gradient of UV doses was achieved by uncovering successive sections of the bacterial streaks.
  Such streaks do not yield confluent growth on medium without uracil, in contrast to prototrophic recombinants.
2An element of a specified kind in someone's character.
（性格的）特征，倾向
there's a streak of insanity in the family
这个家族有精神病的倾向。
Lucy had a ruthless streak
露西生性有点残忍。
Example sentencesExamples
- Has there really been an anti-market streak in Indian political culture with the prevalence of Gandhian values and emphasis on group equity and rights?
- Today's reading highlights the jealous streak in his character.
- The Aberdeen defender is a youngster with a mischievous streak never far from the surface.
- This cultured exterior hides a streak of juvenile depravity.
- He remained married and close to his family but despite a narrow streak of puritanism in his make-up, lived openly for years with his mistress, a chorus girl and minor actress, less than half his age.
- Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement.
- His violent streak is said to have surfaced following the death of his 20-month-old baby son in 1987.
- Ostensibly, Becky is a figure of feminine fierceness, and perhaps her streak of opportunism is a positive element of her character.
- He is known as a courteous man, but with a ruthless streak.
- His ruthless streak was demonstrated when he dumped Burley after a reported disagreement over team selection.
- He was handsome and well-mannered but there was an underlying streak, just under the surface, she didn't like.
- Krystal's independent streak bubbled to the surface again.
- It's very controversial because there's a strong streak in popular culture that goes back to common law.
- He acknowledges she was capricious and had a ruthless streak.
- His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory.
- It's also the pressure of culture and religion which can cause depression or the rebellious streak.
- Rather, it was a combination of both mental and physical elements that kept the streak alive.
- It's a kind of anti-intellectualism, a streak in contemporary culture that is sceptical of the mature, educated adult - as if to be that is the worst of all possible sins.
- Frye is a double threat on offense; a solid perimeter shooter with a fearless streak.
- Her uncle always possessed a materialistic streak to his character, even when it came down to breaks between appointments.
Synonyms
element, vein, trace, touch, dash, strain
1. 2.1usually with adjective A continuous period of specified success or luck.
  （成功或幸运的）一段时间，一阵子
  the theater is on a winning streak
  剧院这一阵子非常火爆。
  the team closed the season with an 11-game losing streak
  Example sentencesExamples
  It seemed like Ian was always working on some solid streak, as he had six hitting streaks over six games, though none over eleven.
  When he stands next to someone on a winning streak and bets on their numbers, luck leaves the table.
  Will New York's uncanny streak of luck continue?
  Turning to stocks, the Nasdaq continued its losing streak today.
  It was no contest the rest of the way as Dallas avoided its first four-game losing streak in more than three years.
  The solid defense that propelled the winning streak was in top form.
  After an eight-game losing streak earlier this month, their chances of making the postseason were as low as Rogers' popularity with reporters.
  I've often argued for Castillo, citing a five-year streak of solid OBP numbers, along with good speed, and solid defense.
  Only the past two losses in the team's three-game losing streak were winnable.
  And the racing fanatic was set to boost his winnings to a massive £2 million jackpot if his lucky streak continued.
  Stock markets will break their three-year losing streak, but the recovery will be unspectacular, Irish business leaders said.
  In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time.
  I understand that South Carolina, less than a year removed from a 21-game losing streak, is at the top of the East Division.
  The longer his losing streak continues the less likely he is to leap the final psychological barrier.
  But if that losing streak from last season carries into 2003, all bets are off.
  They have lost nine matches in a row, and with a batting line-up so inexperienced, that losing streak could well stretch to 13 by the time this tournament is done.
  He finished at 283, ending his streak of 40 consecutive stroke-play tournaments under par.
  The team entered last weekend on a season-high six-game losing streak, and it appears other teams are catching up to Minnesota.
  The index fell for a fifth consecutive day on Friday, its longest losing streak in nine months.
  This losing streak continued against Trinidad.
  Synonyms
  period, spell, stretch, run, time

verbstrēkstrik

1with object Cover (a surface) with streaks.
在（表面）布满条纹
tears streaking her face, Cynthia looked up
辛西娅抬起头来，脸上满是泪痕。
his beard was streaked with gray
他的胡子已经花白。
Example sentencesExamples
- There were bruises and her face was streaked with tears.
- The sky was streaked with gold and red now, a wonderful sight to comprehend.
- Maria's face was streaked with mascara, and Luke was clenching his fists.
- Her eyes were red, and her cheeks were streaked with tears.
- It was streaked with tears and his shirt was covered in blood.
- Each petal was streaked with brown, wilting from the cold.
- Her hair was tousled and fell loosely around her face, which was streaked with what looked to be a combination of ash and dirt.
- The lane is streaked with curvilinear snow, in places trodden into blue ice.
- Outside each, fruit trees, figs and vines were streaked with the ubiquitous dust.
- Now the front of him was streaked with mud as well.
- He uncovered his face, which was streaked with tears.
- The sky was streaked with pink highlights as the sun slowly sank.
- The sky is streaked with blues and pinks, and at the bottom of the frame, the sand is glowing in the fading light.
- The hazy sky was streaked with white clouds.
- All of these windows were streaked with blinds, forbidding the light from entering what lay behind the stoic structure.
- It is the morning of New Year's Eve, 2003, and the sky above my home in Brooklyn is streaked with jet trails, portents of unseen danger.
- Collette's eyes were red and watery, and her face was streaked with tears.
- The sun has streaked the front, so it looks more blond and less strawberry.
- Out on the roof, the sky was black streaked with light.
- Her cheeks were streaked with a mixture of tears and mascara.
Synonyms
stripe, band, bar, fleck
mark, daub, smear, smudge, stain
1. 1.1 Dye (hair) with long, thin lines of a different, typically lighter color than one's natural hair color.
  把（头发）染成条纹状
  hair that was streaked blond
  染成金黄色条纹的头发。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Heldrow shrugged, feeling the hood of his cloak slip down and reveal his blue streaked blond hair.
  So all he had to do to gain passage into the Vodas Village main Undertunnel was tell his name and peel back the hood on his cloak to show his odd blue streaked blond hair.
  He'd be sitting on the kitchen counter most likely, running his hands through his red streaked blonde hair.
  Yuki laughed and walked over to pick the twig from Keiko's long raven black and pink streaked hair.
  Brushing her long mousy brown-and-grey streaked hair out of her face, she joins the queue behind me.
  Liz nudged her towards a chair next to a boy with naturally streaked blond hair that was down past his ears.
  A matted clump of gray streaked blond hair sat on his head, looking like it should fall off as he leaned over and stared down at me.
  I got up, streaked my hair blue, and put on black pants and a shimmery black spaghetti-strap top.
  The robber is described as about 5ft 7ins tall, in his late teens or early 20s, of slim build and with possibly streaked hair.
  They'd streak my hair cheap, and they used temporary dye.
  I was one of those people who liked to play with hair colors, and today my shoulder length brown hair was streaked red to match my outfit.
  Across from me, Ashley chuckled and shook her head, causing her white streaked hair to stiffly follow her movements.
  His hair isn't streaked blue, or red, or a psychedelic purple.
  People were showing up with blue hair, green hair, streaked hair, whole works of art painted on their heads.
  Ian's black hair was streaked through with red, giving him a rather intimidating aura despite his small build.
  ‘It was good,’ she says, from under a thatch of mad, streaked hair.
  She became snobby and rude, and streaked her hair blonde.
2. 1.2Microbiology Smear (a needle, swab, etc.) over the surface of a solid culture medium to initiate a culture.
  〔微生物〕（用针或药签在固体培养基表面）画线（接种细菌）
  Example sentencesExamples
  To determine the presence of yeast in cloacae, swabs were streaked onto Sabouraud's dextrose agar and incubated for 14 days.
  Strains were streaked on rich medium, and 24 colonies from each strain were randomly isolated and restreaked.
  Transformants were streaked on appropriate omission medium and single colonies were picked for further analysis.
  Deletion suppressors obtained were streaked onto SD medium and incubated at 35.5° for 5 days.
  They did germinate on synthetic medium, but were inviable when streaked onto solid rich medium.
2no object, with adverbial of direction Move very fast in a specified direction.
飞跑，疾驰
the cat leaped free and streaked across the street
那只猫挣脱后飞快地跑过街去。
Example sentencesExamples
- My anger wore off quickly as I walked home, but not before I had unnecessarily kicked a stone hard and barely missed a giant black cat that had streaked past.
- An alley cat streaked about the opposite side of the way, catching at a rat of some sort.
- Dozens of missiles streaked out of the aircraft.
- They streaked through the streets to highlight what they claimed was cruelty to the bulls.
- Somehow it missed her head, but pain streaked through her left leg and she couldn't move.
- There was a flash of light between them, streaking down so fast Jennifer didn't catch any glare until it was over.
- Moss attacks vertically, using his speed to streak downfield and his size and leaping ability to snatch passes away from defenders.
- Thinking it was Jude, she leapt up and streaked across the room.
- He immediately fed senior point guard Chris Hernandez, who was streaking down the right sideline.
- A flowing move through six pairs of hands sent Mark Walsh streaking over in the corner but the conversion attempt went inches wide.
- On the streets, cars streaked by with their feral engines roaring and blood-red beams of lights sparkling, like demonic eyes from their exterior.
- His heart pounding near to bursting, he streaked across the shadowed streets.
- Soon the order was obeyed and six missiles streaked off and into the depth of the fleet.
- He streaked away into the sky, disappearing from view almost immediately.
- The loading vehicle sped off, streaking down the street until it was out of view.
- While I staggered on, the children streaked ahead, striking up conversations left, right and centre.
- Lightning streaked across the sky, and collected into a huge ball.
- Doors flew by me as I streaked down the street, nearly blind in the dark.
- He came slowly in through the plants, the cat streaking past him in alarm.
- While Natasha helped her friend up, he streaked after the salamander, which moved surprisingly fast for such a little, young thing.
Synonyms
race, dash, rush, run, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, go hell for leather, plunge, dive, whisk, scurry, scuttle, scamper, scramble
3informal no object Run naked in a public place so as to shock or amuse others.
〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑
Example sentencesExamples
- He became famous for such antics as dancing on table tops, enlivening parties by performing bump and grind striptease acts and, once, streaking naked around a swimming pool.
- At least 20 naked male students streaked past fellow students competing in athletics competition last night.
- The rugby league world has been spared the sight of him streaking naked around a pitch for at least another year.
- And in the 1970s, the fad was streaking: running naked through campus.
- The company has been pushing their new line of running shoes, the most high-profile ad so far being the streaking naked man at the soccer game.
- People ally themselves with the dead for the same reason they tell fantastic tales or streak naked through the college quad: to command attention.
- Two men arrested for streaking naked at a rugby match in Newlands on Saturday would no longer be welcome at the ground, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said yesterday.
- We want to publicise ourselves by basically streaking.
- The door flew open suddenly and two naked blurs streaked past.
- He used to enjoy streaking naked around the streets of his hometown and even got stopped by police for committing the lewd prank.

Phrases

like a streak

informal Very fast.
〈非正式〉飞快地，闪电般地
he is off like a streak
他飞快地跑开了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Suddenly she took off, like a streak, straight ahead, and vanished out of sight.
- The shark would probably be off like a streak if he saw a man diving toward him.
- Of all the fish Charlie is always the first to spot your approach, crossing the pool like a streak of greased lightning to stick his head out of the water.
- Then he was off like a streak, running up the hill.
Synonyms
quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at speed, at full speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly

streak of lightning
一道闪电

A flash of lightning.
一道闪电
Example sentencesExamples
- Emma, as if to discount the effects of the sprained ankle, ‘nonplussed her opponents… by dodging here and there with the rapidity of a streak of lightning.’
- He hadn't yet decided when a loud clap of thunder made him jump, coinciding with a streak of lightning.
- She took off after him like a streak of lightning, anger burning away any of her past fears.
- When a streak of lightning flashes across the sky, you often hear a crack of thunder several seconds later.
- She ignored it, slammed her car door anyway, and flew from the house like a gold streak of lightning.
- Just then a streak of lightning lit the stairway.
- A streak of lightning struck a nearby tree, followed by deafening thunder.
- It was only afterwards that one of the men said there was no thunder, just a streak of lightning and the tree broke and fell.
- A streak of lightning hopped from one end of a cloud to another.
- I was first off the mark as a yellow and black streak of lightning engulfed my lure with a crash that might easily have stopped a dicky heart.
Synonyms
bolt, shaft, flash, beam

Origin

Old English strica, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch streek and German Strich, also to strike. The sense ‘run naked’ was originally US slang.

单词	streak
释义	Definition of streak in English: streak noun striːkstrik 1A long, thin line or mark of a different substance or colour from its surroundings. 条纹，条痕，色带 a streak of oil 油带。 Example sentencesExamples He was neither young nor old, but streaks of grey hair lined his jet-black hair. Be sure all wax is completely buffed until hard to avoid smears and streaks. Rubbing her face with the palm of her hand and smearing the tear streak, Janet sighed and rose from her bed, thinking about all the things her mother used to tell her. Symptoms are pale green new leaves with black streaks between the veins. Her cheeks were flushed and tear streaks from her mascara lined them in black rivulets. Their heads and faces are plain, without lines or streaks. When choosing beef fillet, the outer flesh should be a bright, purplish-red colour laced with thin streaks of white fat. Blurry fields of murky browns and grimy grays almost overwhelm the odd streaks and smears of hot lavender and violet, and splashes of blue and green. A silver streak lined her neatly pinned hair, though age had not yet made it the dominant color. He made some rich dark chocolate and smeared it with streaks of green wasabi that gave it a delicious burn. High cirrus clouds form white streaks across its surface and a number of dark storms act as flaws and focus for the eye. She let go of his neck, placing her slender fingers on his cheek and tracing his jawbone, a streak of red defining it better. Her hand travelled down the glass, smearing a clear streak through the cloudy vapour that formed on the window's face. As the shadows grew, long red and violet streaks dashed the clouds. Rinse off then give a final wipe over with a weak solution of vinegar and water to produce a sparkling surface free of streaks. She had waist-length black hair with bright red streaks and was of medium build. They have a thin streak of white scales that extends above their anterior eyes. Where the whitewash had peeled away, long streaks of dark wood slashed the walls like welts. Solid streaks of cerulean blue or vibrant cyan give the small details she depicts a life that can only be attained through extensive, lucid observation. Part of the appeal of these paintings lies in the minute variations between the hand-drawn bands and free-running streaks. Synonyms band, line, strip, stripe, vein, slash, bar ray, finger, pencil, stroke trace, touch, fleck, dash technical stria, striation, lane mark, smear, smudge, stain, blotch informal splodge, splotch 1.1Microbiology A narrow line of bacteria smeared on the surface of a solid culture medium. 〔微生物〕（细菌在固体培养基上的）画线 Example sentencesExamples A gradient of UV doses was achieved by uncovering successive sections of the bacterial streaks. When the plants were mature, virally infected streaks were excised for RNA extraction. DNA was added by touching a sterile pipette tip to one of the bacterial streaks and twirling it briefly in the reaction mix. Such streaks do not yield confluent growth on medium without uracil, in contrast to prototrophic recombinants. Fresh pullet eggs (White Leghorn Strain) were incubated to obtain the primitive streak stage of development. 2An element of a specified kind in someone's character. （性格的）特征，倾向 there's a streak of insanity in the family 这个家族有精神病的倾向。 Lucy had a ruthless streak 露西生性有点残忍。 Example sentencesExamples Krystal's independent streak bubbled to the surface again. Today's reading highlights the jealous streak in his character. He was handsome and well-mannered but there was an underlying streak, just under the surface, she didn't like. Has there really been an anti-market streak in Indian political culture with the prevalence of Gandhian values and emphasis on group equity and rights? Rather, it was a combination of both mental and physical elements that kept the streak alive. Her uncle always possessed a materialistic streak to his character, even when it came down to breaks between appointments. His violent streak is said to have surfaced following the death of his 20-month-old baby son in 1987. He acknowledges she was capricious and had a ruthless streak. His ruthless streak was demonstrated when he dumped Burley after a reported disagreement over team selection. It's a kind of anti-intellectualism, a streak in contemporary culture that is sceptical of the mature, educated adult - as if to be that is the worst of all possible sins. He is known as a courteous man, but with a ruthless streak. He remained married and close to his family but despite a narrow streak of puritanism in his make-up, lived openly for years with his mistress, a chorus girl and minor actress, less than half his age. The Aberdeen defender is a youngster with a mischievous streak never far from the surface. This cultured exterior hides a streak of juvenile depravity. Ostensibly, Becky is a figure of feminine fierceness, and perhaps her streak of opportunism is a positive element of her character. His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory. It's also the pressure of culture and religion which can cause depression or the rebellious streak. It's very controversial because there's a strong streak in popular culture that goes back to common law. Frye is a double threat on offense; a solid perimeter shooter with a fearless streak. Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement. Synonyms element, vein, trace, touch, dash, strain trait, characteristic 2.1usually with adjective A continuous period of specified success or luck. （成功或幸运的）一段时间，一阵子 the theatre is on a winning streak 剧院这一阵子非常火爆。 Example sentencesExamples I've often argued for Castillo, citing a five-year streak of solid OBP numbers, along with good speed, and solid defense. It seemed like Ian was always working on some solid streak, as he had six hitting streaks over six games, though none over eleven. The team entered last weekend on a season-high six-game losing streak, and it appears other teams are catching up to Minnesota. In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time. Stock markets will break their three-year losing streak, but the recovery will be unspectacular, Irish business leaders said. And the racing fanatic was set to boost his winnings to a massive £2 million jackpot if his lucky streak continued. Turning to stocks, the Nasdaq continued its losing streak today. They have lost nine matches in a row, and with a batting line-up so inexperienced, that losing streak could well stretch to 13 by the time this tournament is done. It was no contest the rest of the way as Dallas avoided its first four-game losing streak in more than three years. When he stands next to someone on a winning streak and bets on their numbers, luck leaves the table. Only the past two losses in the team's three-game losing streak were winnable. I understand that South Carolina, less than a year removed from a 21-game losing streak, is at the top of the East Division. This losing streak continued against Trinidad. He finished at 283, ending his streak of 40 consecutive stroke-play tournaments under par. After an eight-game losing streak earlier this month, their chances of making the postseason were as low as Rogers' popularity with reporters. The longer his losing streak continues the less likely he is to leap the final psychological barrier. The index fell for a fifth consecutive day on Friday, its longest losing streak in nine months. But if that losing streak from last season carries into 2003, all bets are off. The solid defense that propelled the winning streak was in top form. Will New York's uncanny streak of luck continue? Synonyms period, spell, stretch, run, time series British informal patch 3informal An act of running naked in a public place so as to shock or amuse others. 〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑 a streak for charity 为慈善事业而进行的公共场合裸跑。 verb striːkstrik 1with object Cover (a surface) with streaks. 在（表面）布满条纹 tears streaking her face, Cynthia looked up 辛西娅抬起头来，脸上满是泪痕。 his beard was streaked with grey 他的胡子已经花白。 Example sentencesExamples It was streaked with tears and his shirt was covered in blood. Her eyes were red, and her cheeks were streaked with tears. Out on the roof, the sky was black streaked with light. Her hair was tousled and fell loosely around her face, which was streaked with what looked to be a combination of ash and dirt. Each petal was streaked with brown, wilting from the cold. There were bruises and her face was streaked with tears. Maria's face was streaked with mascara, and Luke was clenching his fists. Outside each, fruit trees, figs and vines were streaked with the ubiquitous dust. Her cheeks were streaked with a mixture of tears and mascara. The hazy sky was streaked with white clouds. Now the front of him was streaked with mud as well. Collette's eyes were red and watery, and her face was streaked with tears. He uncovered his face, which was streaked with tears. The lane is streaked with curvilinear snow, in places trodden into blue ice. The sky was streaked with gold and red now, a wonderful sight to comprehend. The sky is streaked with blues and pinks, and at the bottom of the frame, the sand is glowing in the fading light. All of these windows were streaked with blinds, forbidding the light from entering what lay behind the stoic structure. The sun has streaked the front, so it looks more blond and less strawberry. The sky was streaked with pink highlights as the sun slowly sank. It is the morning of New Year's Eve, 2003, and the sky above my home in Brooklyn is streaked with jet trails, portents of unseen danger. Synonyms stripe, band, bar, fleck technical striate archaic freak mark, daub, smear, smudge, stain informal splodge, splotch 1.1 Dye (hair) with long, thin lines of a different colour to that of one's natural hair colour. 把（头发）染成条纹状 with object and complement hair that was streaked blonde Example sentencesExamples Brushing her long mousy brown-and-grey streaked hair out of her face, she joins the queue behind me. A matted clump of gray streaked blond hair sat on his head, looking like it should fall off as he leaned over and stared down at me. The robber is described as about 5ft 7ins tall, in his late teens or early 20s, of slim build and with possibly streaked hair. He'd be sitting on the kitchen counter most likely, running his hands through his red streaked blonde hair. I got up, streaked my hair blue, and put on black pants and a shimmery black spaghetti-strap top. His hair isn't streaked blue, or red, or a psychedelic purple. ‘It was good,’ she says, from under a thatch of mad, streaked hair. Ian's black hair was streaked through with red, giving him a rather intimidating aura despite his small build. Across from me, Ashley chuckled and shook her head, causing her white streaked hair to stiffly follow her movements. People were showing up with blue hair, green hair, streaked hair, whole works of art painted on their heads. She became snobby and rude, and streaked her hair blonde. Heldrow shrugged, feeling the hood of his cloak slip down and reveal his blue streaked blond hair. Yuki laughed and walked over to pick the twig from Keiko's long raven black and pink streaked hair. They'd streak my hair cheap, and they used temporary dye. Liz nudged her towards a chair next to a boy with naturally streaked blond hair that was down past his ears. I was one of those people who liked to play with hair colors, and today my shoulder length brown hair was streaked red to match my outfit. So all he had to do to gain passage into the Vodas Village main Undertunnel was tell his name and peel back the hood on his cloak to show his odd blue streaked blond hair. 1.2Microbiology Smear (a needle, swab, etc.) over the surface of a solid culture medium to initiate a culture. 〔微生物〕（用针或药签在固体培养基表面）画线（接种细菌） swabs were streaked directly on blood agar plates Example sentencesExamples Strains were streaked on rich medium, and 24 colonies from each strain were randomly isolated and restreaked. Transformants were streaked on appropriate omission medium and single colonies were picked for further analysis. Deletion suppressors obtained were streaked onto SD medium and incubated at 35.5° for 5 days. To determine the presence of yeast in cloacae, swabs were streaked onto Sabouraud's dextrose agar and incubated for 14 days. They did germinate on synthetic medium, but were inviable when streaked onto solid rich medium. 2no object, with adverbial of direction Move very fast in a specified direction. 飞跑，疾驰 the cat streaked across the street 那只猫挣脱后飞快地跑过街去。 Example sentencesExamples Soon the order was obeyed and six missiles streaked off and into the depth of the fleet. Doors flew by me as I streaked down the street, nearly blind in the dark. My anger wore off quickly as I walked home, but not before I had unnecessarily kicked a stone hard and barely missed a giant black cat that had streaked past. Moss attacks vertically, using his speed to streak downfield and his size and leaping ability to snatch passes away from defenders. He came slowly in through the plants, the cat streaking past him in alarm. There was a flash of light between them, streaking down so fast Jennifer didn't catch any glare until it was over. While Natasha helped her friend up, he streaked after the salamander, which moved surprisingly fast for such a little, young thing. A flowing move through six pairs of hands sent Mark Walsh streaking over in the corner but the conversion attempt went inches wide. He streaked away into the sky, disappearing from view almost immediately. Lightning streaked across the sky, and collected into a huge ball. On the streets, cars streaked by with their feral engines roaring and blood-red beams of lights sparkling, like demonic eyes from their exterior. While I staggered on, the children streaked ahead, striking up conversations left, right and centre. His heart pounding near to bursting, he streaked across the shadowed streets. The loading vehicle sped off, streaking down the street until it was out of view. He immediately fed senior point guard Chris Hernandez, who was streaking down the right sideline. Somehow it missed her head, but pain streaked through her left leg and she couldn't move. Thinking it was Jude, she leapt up and streaked across the room. They streaked through the streets to highlight what they claimed was cruelty to the bulls. Dozens of missiles streaked out of the aircraft. An alley cat streaked about the opposite side of the way, catching at a rat of some sort. Synonyms race, dash, rush, run, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, go hell for leather, plunge, dive, whisk, scurry, scuttle, scamper, scramble informal tear, belt, pelt, scoot, zap, zip, whip, step on it, get a move on, hotfoot it, leg it, steam, put on some speed, go like a bat out of hell, burn rubber British informal bomb, go like the clappers, bucket, put one's foot down Scottish informal wheech North American informal boogie, hightail it, clip, barrel, get the lead out informal, dated cut along North American vulgar slang drag/tear/haul ass literary fleet archaic post, hie, haste 3informal no object Run naked in a public place so as to shock or amuse others. 〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑 the singer admitted to streaking in his home town in the seventies Example sentencesExamples We want to publicise ourselves by basically streaking. Two men arrested for streaking naked at a rugby match in Newlands on Saturday would no longer be welcome at the ground, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said yesterday. He became famous for such antics as dancing on table tops, enlivening parties by performing bump and grind striptease acts and, once, streaking naked around a swimming pool. The rugby league world has been spared the sight of him streaking naked around a pitch for at least another year. And in the 1970s, the fad was streaking: running naked through campus. People ally themselves with the dead for the same reason they tell fantastic tales or streak naked through the college quad: to command attention. At least 20 naked male students streaked past fellow students competing in athletics competition last night. He used to enjoy streaking naked around the streets of his hometown and even got stopped by police for committing the lewd prank. The door flew open suddenly and two naked blurs streaked past. The company has been pushing their new line of running shoes, the most high-profile ad so far being the streaking naked man at the soccer game. Phrases like a streak informal Very fast. 〈非正式〉飞快地，闪电般地 he is off like a streak 他飞快地跑开了。 Example sentencesExamples Of all the fish Charlie is always the first to spot your approach, crossing the pool like a streak of greased lightning to stick his head out of the water. The shark would probably be off like a streak if he saw a man diving toward him. Suddenly she took off, like a streak, straight ahead, and vanished out of sight. Then he was off like a streak, running up the hill. Synonyms quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at speed, at full speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly streak of lightning 一道闪电 A flash of lightning. 一道闪电 a streak of lightning split the sky Example sentencesExamples He hadn't yet decided when a loud clap of thunder made him jump, coinciding with a streak of lightning. Emma, as if to discount the effects of the sprained ankle, ‘nonplussed her opponents… by dodging here and there with the rapidity of a streak of lightning.’ She took off after him like a streak of lightning, anger burning away any of her past fears. She ignored it, slammed her car door anyway, and flew from the house like a gold streak of lightning. It was only afterwards that one of the men said there was no thunder, just a streak of lightning and the tree broke and fell. Just then a streak of lightning lit the stairway. A streak of lightning hopped from one end of a cloud to another. A streak of lightning struck a nearby tree, followed by deafening thunder. I was first off the mark as a yellow and black streak of lightning engulfed my lure with a crash that might easily have stopped a dicky heart. When a streak of lightning flashes across the sky, you often hear a crack of thunder several seconds later. Synonyms bolt, shaft, flash, beam Derivatives streaker noun ˈstriːkəˈstrikər informal A person who runs naked in a public place, especially in order to shock or amuse others. 〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑 a streaker ran right across the stage behind the presenter Example sentencesExamples The streakers ran on to the field at the Olympic stadium, and disrupted play until they were caught by security. ‘I have had streakers on before, and that has been vaguely amusing,’ said Dickson. If there are a few people who are bothered by streaking, should their wish to participate in a campus event without dealing with streakers outweigh everyone else's clearly demonstrated support for streaking? Origin Old English strica, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch streek and German Strich, also to strike. The sense 'run naked' was originally US slang. Rhymes antique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak noun.1 phr. Definition of streak in US English: streak nounstrēkstrik 1A long, thin line or mark of a different substance or color from its surroundings. 条纹，条痕，色带 a streak of oil 油带。 Example sentencesExamples As the shadows grew, long red and violet streaks dashed the clouds. Be sure all wax is completely buffed until hard to avoid smears and streaks. She let go of his neck, placing her slender fingers on his cheek and tracing his jawbone, a streak of red defining it better. She had waist-length black hair with bright red streaks and was of medium build. Where the whitewash had peeled away, long streaks of dark wood slashed the walls like welts. High cirrus clouds form white streaks across its surface and a number of dark storms act as flaws and focus for the eye. Rubbing her face with the palm of her hand and smearing the tear streak, Janet sighed and rose from her bed, thinking about all the things her mother used to tell her. When choosing beef fillet, the outer flesh should be a bright, purplish-red colour laced with thin streaks of white fat. Part of the appeal of these paintings lies in the minute variations between the hand-drawn bands and free-running streaks. A silver streak lined her neatly pinned hair, though age had not yet made it the dominant color. He was neither young nor old, but streaks of grey hair lined his jet-black hair. Blurry fields of murky browns and grimy grays almost overwhelm the odd streaks and smears of hot lavender and violet, and splashes of blue and green. He made some rich dark chocolate and smeared it with streaks of green wasabi that gave it a delicious burn. Her hand travelled down the glass, smearing a clear streak through the cloudy vapour that formed on the window's face. Their heads and faces are plain, without lines or streaks. Solid streaks of cerulean blue or vibrant cyan give the small details she depicts a life that can only be attained through extensive, lucid observation. They have a thin streak of white scales that extends above their anterior eyes. Her cheeks were flushed and tear streaks from her mascara lined them in black rivulets. Symptoms are pale green new leaves with black streaks between the veins. Rinse off then give a final wipe over with a weak solution of vinegar and water to produce a sparkling surface free of streaks. Synonyms band, line, strip, stripe, vein, slash, bar mark, smear, smudge, stain, blotch 1.1Microbiology A narrow line of bacteria smeared on the surface of a solid culture medium. 〔微生物〕（细菌在固体培养基上的）画线 Example sentencesExamples DNA was added by touching a sterile pipette tip to one of the bacterial streaks and twirling it briefly in the reaction mix. When the plants were mature, virally infected streaks were excised for RNA extraction. Fresh pullet eggs (White Leghorn Strain) were incubated to obtain the primitive streak stage of development. A gradient of UV doses was achieved by uncovering successive sections of the bacterial streaks. Such streaks do not yield confluent growth on medium without uracil, in contrast to prototrophic recombinants. 2An element of a specified kind in someone's character. （性格的）特征，倾向 there's a streak of insanity in the family 这个家族有精神病的倾向。 Lucy had a ruthless streak 露西生性有点残忍。 Example sentencesExamples Has there really been an anti-market streak in Indian political culture with the prevalence of Gandhian values and emphasis on group equity and rights? Today's reading highlights the jealous streak in his character. The Aberdeen defender is a youngster with a mischievous streak never far from the surface. This cultured exterior hides a streak of juvenile depravity. He remained married and close to his family but despite a narrow streak of puritanism in his make-up, lived openly for years with his mistress, a chorus girl and minor actress, less than half his age. Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement. His violent streak is said to have surfaced following the death of his 20-month-old baby son in 1987. Ostensibly, Becky is a figure of feminine fierceness, and perhaps her streak of opportunism is a positive element of her character. He is known as a courteous man, but with a ruthless streak. His ruthless streak was demonstrated when he dumped Burley after a reported disagreement over team selection. He was handsome and well-mannered but there was an underlying streak, just under the surface, she didn't like. Krystal's independent streak bubbled to the surface again. It's very controversial because there's a strong streak in popular culture that goes back to common law. He acknowledges she was capricious and had a ruthless streak. His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory. It's also the pressure of culture and religion which can cause depression or the rebellious streak. Rather, it was a combination of both mental and physical elements that kept the streak alive. It's a kind of anti-intellectualism, a streak in contemporary culture that is sceptical of the mature, educated adult - as if to be that is the worst of all possible sins. Frye is a double threat on offense; a solid perimeter shooter with a fearless streak. Her uncle always possessed a materialistic streak to his character, even when it came down to breaks between appointments. Synonyms element, vein, trace, touch, dash, strain 2.1usually with adjective A continuous period of specified success or luck. （成功或幸运的）一段时间，一阵子 the theater is on a winning streak 剧院这一阵子非常火爆。 the team closed the season with an 11-game losing streak Example sentencesExamples It seemed like Ian was always working on some solid streak, as he had six hitting streaks over six games, though none over eleven. When he stands next to someone on a winning streak and bets on their numbers, luck leaves the table. Will New York's uncanny streak of luck continue? Turning to stocks, the Nasdaq continued its losing streak today. It was no contest the rest of the way as Dallas avoided its first four-game losing streak in more than three years. The solid defense that propelled the winning streak was in top form. After an eight-game losing streak earlier this month, their chances of making the postseason were as low as Rogers' popularity with reporters. I've often argued for Castillo, citing a five-year streak of solid OBP numbers, along with good speed, and solid defense. Only the past two losses in the team's three-game losing streak were winnable. And the racing fanatic was set to boost his winnings to a massive £2 million jackpot if his lucky streak continued. Stock markets will break their three-year losing streak, but the recovery will be unspectacular, Irish business leaders said. In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time. I understand that South Carolina, less than a year removed from a 21-game losing streak, is at the top of the East Division. The longer his losing streak continues the less likely he is to leap the final psychological barrier. But if that losing streak from last season carries into 2003, all bets are off. They have lost nine matches in a row, and with a batting line-up so inexperienced, that losing streak could well stretch to 13 by the time this tournament is done. He finished at 283, ending his streak of 40 consecutive stroke-play tournaments under par. The team entered last weekend on a season-high six-game losing streak, and it appears other teams are catching up to Minnesota. The index fell for a fifth consecutive day on Friday, its longest losing streak in nine months. This losing streak continued against Trinidad. Synonyms period, spell, stretch, run, time verbstrēkstrik 1with object Cover (a surface) with streaks. 在（表面）布满条纹 tears streaking her face, Cynthia looked up 辛西娅抬起头来，脸上满是泪痕。 his beard was streaked with gray 他的胡子已经花白。 Example sentencesExamples There were bruises and her face was streaked with tears. The sky was streaked with gold and red now, a wonderful sight to comprehend. Maria's face was streaked with mascara, and Luke was clenching his fists. Her eyes were red, and her cheeks were streaked with tears. It was streaked with tears and his shirt was covered in blood. Each petal was streaked with brown, wilting from the cold. Her hair was tousled and fell loosely around her face, which was streaked with what looked to be a combination of ash and dirt. The lane is streaked with curvilinear snow, in places trodden into blue ice. Outside each, fruit trees, figs and vines were streaked with the ubiquitous dust. Now the front of him was streaked with mud as well. He uncovered his face, which was streaked with tears. The sky was streaked with pink highlights as the sun slowly sank. The sky is streaked with blues and pinks, and at the bottom of the frame, the sand is glowing in the fading light. The hazy sky was streaked with white clouds. All of these windows were streaked with blinds, forbidding the light from entering what lay behind the stoic structure. It is the morning of New Year's Eve, 2003, and the sky above my home in Brooklyn is streaked with jet trails, portents of unseen danger. Collette's eyes were red and watery, and her face was streaked with tears. The sun has streaked the front, so it looks more blond and less strawberry. Out on the roof, the sky was black streaked with light. Her cheeks were streaked with a mixture of tears and mascara. Synonyms stripe, band, bar, fleck mark, daub, smear, smudge, stain 1.1 Dye (hair) with long, thin lines of a different, typically lighter color than one's natural hair color. 把（头发）染成条纹状 hair that was streaked blond 染成金黄色条纹的头发。 Example sentencesExamples Heldrow shrugged, feeling the hood of his cloak slip down and reveal his blue streaked blond hair. So all he had to do to gain passage into the Vodas Village main Undertunnel was tell his name and peel back the hood on his cloak to show his odd blue streaked blond hair. He'd be sitting on the kitchen counter most likely, running his hands through his red streaked blonde hair. Yuki laughed and walked over to pick the twig from Keiko's long raven black and pink streaked hair. Brushing her long mousy brown-and-grey streaked hair out of her face, she joins the queue behind me. Liz nudged her towards a chair next to a boy with naturally streaked blond hair that was down past his ears. A matted clump of gray streaked blond hair sat on his head, looking like it should fall off as he leaned over and stared down at me. I got up, streaked my hair blue, and put on black pants and a shimmery black spaghetti-strap top. The robber is described as about 5ft 7ins tall, in his late teens or early 20s, of slim build and with possibly streaked hair. They'd streak my hair cheap, and they used temporary dye. I was one of those people who liked to play with hair colors, and today my shoulder length brown hair was streaked red to match my outfit. Across from me, Ashley chuckled and shook her head, causing her white streaked hair to stiffly follow her movements. His hair isn't streaked blue, or red, or a psychedelic purple. People were showing up with blue hair, green hair, streaked hair, whole works of art painted on their heads. Ian's black hair was streaked through with red, giving him a rather intimidating aura despite his small build. ‘It was good,’ she says, from under a thatch of mad, streaked hair. She became snobby and rude, and streaked her hair blonde. 1.2Microbiology Smear (a needle, swab, etc.) over the surface of a solid culture medium to initiate a culture. 〔微生物〕（用针或药签在固体培养基表面）画线（接种细菌） Example sentencesExamples To determine the presence of yeast in cloacae, swabs were streaked onto Sabouraud's dextrose agar and incubated for 14 days. Strains were streaked on rich medium, and 24 colonies from each strain were randomly isolated and restreaked. Transformants were streaked on appropriate omission medium and single colonies were picked for further analysis. Deletion suppressors obtained were streaked onto SD medium and incubated at 35.5° for 5 days. They did germinate on synthetic medium, but were inviable when streaked onto solid rich medium. 2no object, with adverbial of direction Move very fast in a specified direction. 飞跑，疾驰 the cat leaped free and streaked across the street 那只猫挣脱后飞快地跑过街去。 Example sentencesExamples My anger wore off quickly as I walked home, but not before I had unnecessarily kicked a stone hard and barely missed a giant black cat that had streaked past. An alley cat streaked about the opposite side of the way, catching at a rat of some sort. Dozens of missiles streaked out of the aircraft. They streaked through the streets to highlight what they claimed was cruelty to the bulls. Somehow it missed her head, but pain streaked through her left leg and she couldn't move. There was a flash of light between them, streaking down so fast Jennifer didn't catch any glare until it was over. Moss attacks vertically, using his speed to streak downfield and his size and leaping ability to snatch passes away from defenders. Thinking it was Jude, she leapt up and streaked across the room. He immediately fed senior point guard Chris Hernandez, who was streaking down the right sideline. A flowing move through six pairs of hands sent Mark Walsh streaking over in the corner but the conversion attempt went inches wide. On the streets, cars streaked by with their feral engines roaring and blood-red beams of lights sparkling, like demonic eyes from their exterior. His heart pounding near to bursting, he streaked across the shadowed streets. Soon the order was obeyed and six missiles streaked off and into the depth of the fleet. He streaked away into the sky, disappearing from view almost immediately. The loading vehicle sped off, streaking down the street until it was out of view. While I staggered on, the children streaked ahead, striking up conversations left, right and centre. Lightning streaked across the sky, and collected into a huge ball. Doors flew by me as I streaked down the street, nearly blind in the dark. He came slowly in through the plants, the cat streaking past him in alarm. While Natasha helped her friend up, he streaked after the salamander, which moved surprisingly fast for such a little, young thing. Synonyms race, dash, rush, run, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, zoom, go hell for leather, plunge, dive, whisk, scurry, scuttle, scamper, scramble 3informal no object Run naked in a public place so as to shock or amuse others. 〈非正式〉公共场合裸跑 Example sentencesExamples He became famous for such antics as dancing on table tops, enlivening parties by performing bump and grind striptease acts and, once, streaking naked around a swimming pool. At least 20 naked male students streaked past fellow students competing in athletics competition last night. The rugby league world has been spared the sight of him streaking naked around a pitch for at least another year. And in the 1970s, the fad was streaking: running naked through campus. The company has been pushing their new line of running shoes, the most high-profile ad so far being the streaking naked man at the soccer game. People ally themselves with the dead for the same reason they tell fantastic tales or streak naked through the college quad: to command attention. Two men arrested for streaking naked at a rugby match in Newlands on Saturday would no longer be welcome at the ground, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said yesterday. We want to publicise ourselves by basically streaking. The door flew open suddenly and two naked blurs streaked past. He used to enjoy streaking naked around the streets of his hometown and even got stopped by police for committing the lewd prank. Phrases like a streak informal Very fast. 〈非正式〉飞快地，闪电般地 he is off like a streak 他飞快地跑开了。 Example sentencesExamples Suddenly she took off, like a streak, straight ahead, and vanished out of sight. The shark would probably be off like a streak if he saw a man diving toward him. Of all the fish Charlie is always the first to spot your approach, crossing the pool like a streak of greased lightning to stick his head out of the water. Then he was off like a streak, running up the hill. Synonyms quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at speed, at full speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly streak of lightning 一道闪电 A flash of lightning. 一道闪电 Example sentencesExamples Emma, as if to discount the effects of the sprained ankle, ‘nonplussed her opponents… by dodging here and there with the rapidity of a streak of lightning.’ He hadn't yet decided when a loud clap of thunder made him jump, coinciding with a streak of lightning. She took off after him like a streak of lightning, anger burning away any of her past fears. When a streak of lightning flashes across the sky, you often hear a crack of thunder several seconds later. She ignored it, slammed her car door anyway, and flew from the house like a gold streak of lightning. Just then a streak of lightning lit the stairway. A streak of lightning struck a nearby tree, followed by deafening thunder. It was only afterwards that one of the men said there was no thunder, just a streak of lightning and the tree broke and fell. A streak of lightning hopped from one end of a cloud to another. I was first off the mark as a yellow and black streak of lightning engulfed my lure with a crash that might easily have stopped a dicky heart. Synonyms bolt, shaft, flash, beam Origin Old English strica, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch streek and German Strich, also to strike. The sense ‘run naked’ was originally US slang. noun.1 phr.
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