English Dictionary

gleam

/ɡliːm/

verb

(transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine. / To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.

The stars gleam brightly in the night sky.

意味（1）

(transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.

Many a dry drop ſeem'd a vveeping teare, / Shed for the ſlaughtred husband by the vvife. / The red bloud reek'd to ſhevv the Painters ſtrife, / And dying eyes gleem'd forth their aſhie lights, / Like dying coales burnt out in tedious nights.

意味（2）

To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.

Quick to redeem the Prey their plighted Lords / Advance, the Palace gleams vvith ſhining Svvords.

意味（3）

(figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.

Mr. Crawley spoke these words without hesitation, even with eloquence, standing upright, and with something of a noble anger gleaming over his poor wan face; and, I think that while speaking them, he was happier than he had been for many a long day.