dab

1. V-T/V-I If you dab something, you touch it several times using quick, light movements. If you dab a substance onto a surface, you put it there using quick, light movements. 轻擦; 轻敷

She arrived weeping, dabbing her eyes with a tissue. 她哭着来了，用纸巾轻擦着眼睛。

She dabbed iodine on the cuts on her forehead. 她在她额头的伤口处搽了碘酒。

2. N-COUNT A dab of something is a small amount of it that is put onto a surface. 少量[非正式]

...a dab of glue. …一点胶水。

3. N a small common European brown flatfish, Limanda limanda, covered with rough toothed scales: family Pleuronectidae: a food fish 比目鱼