wick

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The Professor was beginning to get on Molly's wick.
教授快要把莫莉惹毛了。
She's always talking about herself — she gets on my wick.
她總是在談?wù)撟约?這真讓我惱火.
It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
這燈芯很難旋上旋下.
The Professor was beginning to get on Molly's wick.
教授快要把莫莉惹毛了。
The boss gets on my wick with his everlasting complaints about timekeeping. And he thinks nothing of rolling up to the office at ten o'clock himself.
上司總是抱怨說我們不守時,真令我煩透了. 可是他對自己10點鐘才到辦公室卻一點也不在乎.

a piece of string in the centre of a candle, or a similar part of a light, that supplies fuel to a flame
to absorb liquid from something and remove it

The wick of a candle is the piece of string in it that burns when it is lit.
The wick of an oil lamp or cigarette lighter is the part that supplies the fuel to the flame when it is lit.