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flashbulb

/flash-buhlb/US // ˈflæʃˌbʌlb //UK // (ˈflæʃˌbʌlb) //

闪光灯,闪光灯,电灯泡,闪光弹

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Photography.

    • : a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.

Examples

  • Everybody whooped and hollered and flashbulbs went off like gunshots and microphones were shoved in faces and TV cameras were everywhere and parents ran toward their children.

  • The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.

  • It's as though when we first learn of it a flashbulb has imprinted in our recall the details of the event.

  • You aim, pull the trigger, and the shutter opens as the flashbulb goes off.

  • It was what he'd seen when the flashbulb of his gun-camera went off.

  • When you photographed the scene, did you use flashbulb equipment or not?

  • Just like a camera flashbulb going off, but bigger, brighter.