speck /ˈspɛk/
 斑點,灰塵,汙點,缺點,微粒,肥肉(vt.)使有斑點


 speck
 小污斑


 Speck n.  The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
 Speck falls Naut., falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.


 Speck, n.
 1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. “Gray sand, with black specks.”
 2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
    Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.   --Landor.
 3. Zool. A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.


 Speck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Specked p. pr. & vb. n. Specking.] To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
    Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold.   --Milton.

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 speck
      n 1: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
           [syn: pinpoint]
      2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom,
         molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote]
      3: a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a
         touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch,
          jot, soupcon]
      v : produce specks in or on; "speck the cloth"