etiolate

1 The tradition lives on today, in etiolated form, in commercial wax museums.

2 So did Alberto Giacometti, represented here by his “Standing Woman,” of 1948, an emaciated, etiolated bronze of the type that Giacometti’s friend, Jean-Paul Sartre, compared to “the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald.”

3 Working on them made him feel slack and etiolated, like a marathoner forced to stagger around the track a second time.

4 You take in your late granny’s hideous yucca plant, a mostly etiolated stump with a couple of yellow ribbon-like leaves.

5 As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough.

6 I am going to put back these curtains, and let in some light,—you will become etiolated.

7 In America the sentiment of the etiolated, the brainless, the prudish, the hypocrite is the censor.

8 It is not surprising that early racing paintings show animals that are etiolated and apparently long in the back: they are trained until every ounce of ‘condition’ – spare flesh – is sweated away.

9 Many other mothers, possibly used to the sight by now, pushed their own full strollers by the empty, etiolated version without so much as a sideways glance.

10 The one, living amid snowclad scenery, where the sparse vegetation is gray and grayish-green, and the birds and animals almost as white as the snow over which they wander, is pale, etiolated.

11 Call it survivor’s guilt, or simply an etiolated ability to take pleasure in life, a reduced sense of self, but whatever, cooking and writing about food restored me to life, and still does.

12 Some etiolated form of what might be called Ledeenism lingered on before taking on new life at the outset of the Trump administration.

13 Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.

14 One afternoon from his window Michael was pondering the etiolated season whose ghostliness was more apparent in Leppard Street, because no fall of leaves marked material decline.

15 On this subject we can only build hypotheses, but the study of nature shows us that where conjugation ceases reproduction is etiolated and finally disappears, even when it is still possible for a certain time.

16 Suddenly began the plaint of the organ, and some half-dozen voices sang a hymn; and these pale, etiolated voices interested her.

17 Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt.

18 There is, therefore, a risk that as the government shrinks the public sector there is only an etiolated private sector to take its place.

19 Because of this fact, magnesium-starvation produces etiolated plants, which cannot function normally.

20 He felt as the etiolated grass and daisies must do when you move the garden roller away to a new place.

1 使变白

blanch

2 衰弱

shaky worn-out withered emaciate effete enervated doddered adynamic down labefaction tabefaction waste decline collapse weakness breakdown relaxation sinking impotence infirmity prostration debility marasmus wear fail sink pine wither languish droop bate reduce sap wilt depress prostrate debilitate enervate enfeeble unstring devitalize

3 黄化

etiolation

4 变苍白

pale blanch blench

5 萎靡

poor slump etiolation

6 白化

pipe-clay

7 使变苍白

pale blanch

8 褪色

bleaching-out stained discolour etiolation fly cast fade fox

9 使衰弱

reduce waste sink collapse sap wilt depress wither prostrate debilitate emaciate enervate enfeeble unstring devitalize

10 使褪色

fade discolour

11 脸色苍白

blanch

12 变白

frosted albescent silver bleach whiten blanch whitening blench