Tan
[tæn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a light brown the color of topaz.
(noun.) a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.
(verb.) get a tan, from wind or sun.
(verb.) treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather.
(adj.) of a light yellowish-brown color .
手打:莉莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) See Picul.
(n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
(n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
(n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
(a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
(n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
(n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
(v. i.) To get or become tanned.
比利編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Convert into leather, impregnate with tannin.[2]. Imbrown, make tawny.
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解釋/意思:
n. bark of the oak &c. bruised and broken for tanning: a yellowish-brown colour.—v.t. to convert skins and hides into leather by steeping in vegetable solutions containing tannin: to make brown or tawny: to take the freshness from: (coll.) to beat.—v.i. to become tanned:—pr.p. tan′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. tanned.—n.pl. Tan′-balls the spent bark of the tanner's yard pressed into lumps which harden on drying and serve for fuel.—n. Tan′-bed (hort.) a bark-bed.—adj. Tan′-col′oured of the colour of tan.—ns. Tan′ling (Shak.) one tanned or scorched by the heat of the sun; Tan′-liq′uor -ooze an aqueous extract of tan-bark.—adj. Tan′nable.—ns. Tan′nage act of tanning: browning from exposure to the sun: the act of steeping cast slabs of artificial marble in a solution of potash alum to harden it and make it insoluble; Tan′ner one who tans; Tan′nery a place for tanning; Tan′ning the art of tanning or converting into leather; Tan′-pit -vat a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan; Tan′-yard a yard or enclosure where leather is tanned.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Why so long, Tan Gama? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- See, I have it here, and as she spoke she drew Tan Gama's short-sword from beneath her sleeping silks and furs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- If 'tan't, I'll bide it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Lor, Mas'r, 'tan't us,--we 's reglar stiddy,--it's these yer new hands; they 's real aggravatin',--kinder pickin' at us, all time! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Theerfur 'tan't my intentions to moor Missis Gummidge 'long with them, but to find a Beein' fur her wheer she can fisherate for herself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- What can be detaining Tan Gama? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- So saying, the trooper puts his lips to the old girl's tanned forehead, and the door shuts upon him in his cell. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was a major, his face was tanned and he laughed all the time. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- A face showed itself with marked distinctness against the dark-tanned wood of the upper part. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There were ten men, swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Up, infidel dog when I command you, said Prince John, or I will have thy swarthy hide stript off, and tanned for horse-furniture. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The driver wore a cap and his face was thin and very tanned. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The sheepskin was fresh dried and not tanned and as Robert Jordan rested his stocking feet on it he could feel it crackle like parchment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Shortly after he had moved to London he had been asked to investigate astringent plants in connection with tanning. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They are changed from time to time from weaker into stronger liquor until the tanning process is complete. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This is used mostly in tanning soft, glovey upper leather, which when finished makes a very tough yet soft and pliable leather for footwear. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When men were skin-dressed animals they knew little or nothing of tanning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They knew how to sweat, dry, and smoke the skins, and this crude seasoning process was the forerunner of modern tanning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But he found the hide had dried as stiff as a board, and as he knew naught of tanning, he was forced to abandon his cherished plan. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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