flashing

基本解释

n. （防屋顶等渗水的）防水板，遮雨板
v. （使）闪耀，闪光；（向……）用光发出（信号）；快速显示；飞速运动；掠过；突然想到，猛然想起；（使）映出，显示；突然显露（强烈情感）（flash 的现在分词）

The flashing lights denote dangerous roads ahead.
闪光表示前方道路危险。
The recognition of a letter flashing on a screen signals the word processor to choose that letter.
识别屏幕上闪烁的字母，给文字处理器发信号，以选择那个字母。
The flashing lights helps you become aware (in your sleep) that your are sleeping and dreaming, in doing so you become more likely to be able to control your dreams.
闪烁的灯帮助你意识到（你还处于睡眠状态）你在睡觉而且在做梦，通过这种方法你差不多就能控制你的梦的内容了。

"It's putting a false sense on the market right now that everybody has this big flashing yellow light flashing, caution,caution,caution, so people are buying stuff you know in high volume than they usually buy.
because that's, yeah, it always has the news flashing around with what's going on.
因为，那里总是发布最新发生的新闻。
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The flashing of these subliminal words, a fancy term meaning below the level of consciousness, you don't know you're seeing them has dramatic effects on how you answer those questions.
这些阈下词语的闪现，“阈下“是指低于意识水平，“subliminal“，meaning，–,也就是说你并没有察觉到，自己在看这些词语,阈下词汇的闪现对你如何回答那些问题,产生了显著的影响。
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Then another flashing plan, the one story that would convince both women of his innocence.
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a weatherproof material, esp thin sheet metal, used to cover the valleys between the slopes of a roof, the junction between a chimney and a roof, etc