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- a small depression in the flesh, either one that exists permanently or one that forms in the cheeks when one smiles酒窝。
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- often as modifier a slight depression in the surface of something（物体表面的）浅凹, 小窝：
a sheet of dimple foam.
一块表面有凹痕的泡沫塑料。
with obj.
1- produce a dimple or dimples in the surface of (something)使（物体表面）有浅凹, 使（物体表面）起涟漪：
a sucking swirl dimpled the water.
一阵上吸的漩涡使得水面泛起涟漪。
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- no obj.(of the surface of something) form or show a dimple or dimples（物体表面）形成浅凹, 起涟漪。
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- no obj. smile so as to produce a dimple or dimples笑出酒窝：
she dimpled at Auguste.
她对奥古斯特面露笑靥。
派生词
dimply
adjective词源
Middle English: of Germanic origin; related to German Tümpel 'pond'.