Tawny
['tɔːnɪ] or ['tɔni]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather .
錄入:诺顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
伊万杰琳校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Fulvous, fulvid, yellowish-brown, dull yellow.
戈代娃手打
解釋/意思:
adj. of the colour of things tanned a yellowish brown.—n. Taw′niness.
整理:韦尔登
例句/造句/用法:
- At last he saw it, not twenty feet away--the long, lithe, muscular body and tawny head of a huge black-maned lion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He looked back and saw her standing there, the first morning sunlight on her brown face and the cropped, tawny, burned-gold hair. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- She wore what seemed to me to be a nurse's uniform, was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- She could not hear what Pilar was saying, but as she smiled at Robert Jordan she blushed dark under the tawny skin and then smiled at him again. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- From a diverging tunnel a sinuous, tawny form crept stealthily toward us. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Sir Thomas was celebrated as a hanging judge, and the particular tawny port was produced when he dined with Mr. Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
校對:史蒂文