diaphanous
英 [da?'?f(?)n?s]
美[da?'?f?n?s]
- adj. 透明的；精致的；模糊的
GRE暢通詞匯
助記提示
1、dia- "through" + phan- "show, appear, be seen" + -ous.
2、=> transparent.
2、=> transparent.
中文詞源
diaphanous 半透明的
dia-, 穿過。-phan發(fā)光，顯現(xiàn)，詞源同phantasm, photo. 即透光的，半透明的。
英文詞源
- diaphanous
- diaphanous: [17] Semantically, diaphanous is the ancestor of modern English see-through. It comes, via medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanés, a compound adjective formed from dia- ‘through’ and the verb phaínein ‘show’. Originally in English it meant simply ‘transparent’, without its present-day connotations of delicacy: ‘Aristotle called light a quality inherent, or cleaving to a Diaphanous body’, Walter Raleigh, History of the World 1614.
- diaphanous (adj.)
- 1610s, from Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanes "transparent," from dia- "through" (see dia-) + phainesthai, middle voice form (subject acting on itself) of phainein "to show" (see phantasm).
雙語例句
- 1. She was wearing a dress of diaphanous silk.
- 她穿著一件薄如蟬翼的綢服。
來自辭典例句
- 2. The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.
- 遠(yuǎn)處,空氣干燥而明凈,微風(fēng)吹拂著樹葉發(fā)出沙沙的聲音.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Hence the rainforest's high level of humidity , visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudletscanopy.
- 所以,雨林的空氣十分濕潤, 從觀測(cè)站望去,山林籠罩著薄薄的云.
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