twitching of a facial muscle, 1822, often a shortening of tic douloureux "severe facial neuralgia," literally "painful twitch" (1798), from French tic "a twitching disease of horses" (17c.), of unknown origin. Klein suggests an imitative origin; Diez compare it to Italian ticchio "whim, caprice, ridiculous habit," itself of unknown origin.
實(shí)用例句
1. She developed a tic in her left eye.
她左眼處的肌肉出現(xiàn)抽搐。
來自柯林斯例句
2. In this experiment, nanocrystalline TiC, and TiC - dispersion - strengthened Cu - basecomposites have been prepared by MSR and MA methods.
