Stain
[steɪn] or [sten]
解释:
(noun.) a soiled or discolored appearance; 'the wine left a dark stain'.
(noun.) (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible.
(verb.) color for microscopic study; 'The laboratory worker dyed the specimen'.
(verb.) color with a liquid dye or tint; 'Stain this table a beautiful walnut color'; 'people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages'.
(verb.) produce or leave stains; 'Red wine stains the table cloth'.
手打:玛里琳--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
(v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
(v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
(v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
(v. i.) To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
(n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
(n.) A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
(n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
(n.) Cause of reproach; shame.
(n.) A tincture; a tinge.
录入:泰茜
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Soil, sully, contaminate, tarnish, spot, blot, blemish, discolor.[2]. Dye, tinge, color.[3]. Disgrace, pollute, corrupt, defile, dishonor, debase, deprave, contaminate, taint.
n. [1]. Blemish, tarnish, spot, blot, imperfection.[2]. Disgrace, dishonor, contamination, taint.
整理:梅尔巴
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Color, dye, tinge, discoloration, blemish, blot, stigma, slur, shame, taint,{[See ~]?}
SYN:Dye, color, tinge, slur, shame, paint, blot, soil, sully, discolor, tarnish,taint, disgrace, dishonor, befoul, blemish, stigmatize
ANT:Purify, wash, cleanse, absolve, ornament, decorate, emblazon, signalize, honor
乔整理
解释:
v.t. to tinge or colour: to give a different colour to: to impregnate as a tissue with some substance whose reaction colours some parts but not others thus making form or structure plainly visible: to dye: to mark with guilt or infamy: to bring reproach on: to sully: to tarnish.—v.i. to take or impart a stain.—n. a discoloration: a spot: taint of guilt: cause of reproach: shame.—n. Stain′er one who stains or blots: a dyer.—adj. Stain′less without or free from stain.—adv. Stain′lessly.—n. Stain′lessness.—Stained glass glass painted with certain pigments fused into its surface.
编辑:诺拉
娱乐性解释：
To see stain on your hands, or clothing, while dreaming, foretells that trouble over small matters will assail you. To see a stain on the garments of others, or on their flesh, foretells that some person will betray you.
整理:威尔伯
例句:
- Gentlemen all, observe the dark stain upon this gentleman's hat, no wider than a shilling, but thicker than a half-crown. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The worms have eaten the cloth a good deal--there's the stain which Sir Pitt--ha! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- After leaving Miss Rachel's room, I stopped a moment on one of the landings, by myself, to see if I had got the paint-stain by any chance on MY gown. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Venn flushed through his stain. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The other half, however, attracted my attention at once by its singular freedom from stain or impurity of any kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- With a darkening face my friend strode along the margin, eagerly observant of every muddy stain upon the mossy surface. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- This is a very deep and natural stain. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- You observed that her right glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- What good man will ever come again under my roof if I let my floor be stained with a good man's blood! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- As he held out his hand to Holmes, I perceived that it was also stained with yellow nicotine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I cannot call to mind where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained glass window in a church. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I shuddered at the thought that for anything I knew, his hand might be stained with blood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I can hold them crumpled up in my hand, so no one will know how stained they are. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolourations, but undoubtedly fresh. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The blood-stains in the room and also on the stick are very slight. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I presume, as I see blood-stains upon it, that it is the one which was found in the dead man's grasp. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, mud-stains, blood-stains! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Paint stains are best removed by the application of gasoline followed by soap and water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- That's clear enough, for the stains lie above each other--if you lay it over this way. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- One of the most important and lucrative industrial processes of the world to-day is that of staining and dyeing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
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