Whiten
['waɪt(ə)n] or ['waɪtn]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
(v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.
艾伯纳錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Bleach, blanch, etiolate, make white.
v. n. Bleach, etiolate, become or grow white.
整理:普雷斯利
例句/造句/用法:
- She was but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already begun to whiten, even as mine has. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Silk, lace, and wool when bleached with chlorine become hard and brittle, but when whitened with sulphurous acid, they retain their natural characteristics. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- That this solution has bleaching properties is shown by the fact that a colored cloth dipped into it loses its color, and unbleached fabrics immersed in it are whitened. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- For three days the snow fell, ice stopped the current of the rivers, and the birds flew out from crackling branches of the frost-whitened trees. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Finally the pin was straightened and blanched or whitened. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Mr. Guppy looks into the shade in all directions, discovering everywhere a certain charred and whitened little heap of coal or wood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Long in the legs, yielding at the knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketed, lime-whitened. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The whitening is done by boiling the pins in a large copper kettle, which also contains layers of grained tin and a solution of argol or bitartrate of potash. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I was encouraged by nothing, mother, but by looking at the red sparks dropping out of the fire, and whitening and dying. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A general whitening of the skin is produced by this lotion without any irritation. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
手打:丽贝卡