Blush
[blʌʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty).
(verb.) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; 'The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by'.
(verb.) become rosy or reddish; 'her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air'.
乔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
(v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
(v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
(v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
(v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
(n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
(n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
埃德温娜手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Redden (in the cheeks), color.
n. Reddening (of the cheeks), suffusion of the face.
編輯:洛娜
解釋/意思:
n. a red glow on the face caused by shame modesty &c.: any reddish colour: sudden appearance.—v.i. to show shame or confusion by growing red in the face: to grow red.—n. Blush′et (Ben Jonson) a young modest girl.—adj. Blush′ful full of blushes: modest—n. Blush′ing the act of turning red: the appearance of colour upon the cheek.—p.adj. showing blushes: modest.—adv. Blush′ingly.—At the first blush at the first glance.—To put to the blush to cause to blush.
艾伯特整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the sensorium, in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the vase-motorial, muscular filaments of the facial capillaries, whereby, being divested of their elasticity, they become suffused with a radiance emanating from an intimidated praecordia.
手打:普里西拉
例句/造句/用法:
- She paused again, a little breathless with the unwonted length of her speech, and sat with her lips slightly parted and a deep blush on her cheeks. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Look away from me, don't listen to me, stop me, blush for me, cry for me--even you, Amy! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- No human evidence would ever have been able to persuade Martin Yorke that he blushed when thus addressed; yet blush he did, to the ears. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- How would he blush in presence of the man with fingers on his elbow? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Thomasin blushed a little. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Helena blushed at this, but, purposely misunderstanding the hint, made demure reply. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Maria blushed and said nothing. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She blushed again. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- No human evidence would ever have been able to persuade Martin Yorke that he blushed when thus addressed; yet blush he did, to the ears. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The priest smiled and blushed and shook his head. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Harriet blushed and smiled, and said something about wondering that people should like her so much. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He entered the front room not without blushing; for he, like many, had felt the power of this girl's face and form. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I have nothing left to begin with,' returned Bella, blushing, 'because I was going to say that it was a pleasure to me to look at you, Lizzie. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women's faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- None at all, if you please, she doesn't wish her name to appear and has no nom de plume, said Jo, blushing in spite of herself. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- City there; terrace gardens blushing with the bella donna. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You are blushing now. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- My Lady, looking at the downcast and blushing face, says smiling, Who is it? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare blushes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Good gracious, look at her blushing again all over her blushes! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- With the deepest blushes Fanny protested against such a thought. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Nor did his blushes and awkwardness take away from it: she was pleased with these healthy tokens of the young gentleman's ingenuousness. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- His blushes, his stumbles, his awkwardness, and the number of feet which he crushed as he went back to his place, who shall describe or calculate? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The soldier, by his deep blushes, I fancy, rather guessed Lord Worcester's motive in speaking to him. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
手打:谢莉