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词根:swart
n.swarthiness 黑黝黝
Adjective
1. naturally having skin of a dark color;
"a dark-skinned beauty"
"gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"
"a smile on his swarthy face"
"`swart' is archaic"
古英语 sweart 意为“黑色的,暗淡的”,用于形容夜晚、云彩,也用于比喻,表示“邪恶的,臭名昭著的”,源自原始日耳曼语 *swarta-(也是古弗里西亚语、古撒克逊语和中古荷兰语 swart,荷兰语 zwart,古诺尔斯语 svartr,德语 schwarz,哥特语 swarts 的来源),源自原始印欧语根 *swordo-,意为“肮脏的,黑暗的,黑色的”(sordid 的来源)。这个真正的日耳曼语词汇在大陆语言中仍然存在,但在英语中被 black 取代。用于形容人的肤色,始于14世纪晚期。相关词汇: Swartest。
Middle English, from Old English sweart; akin to Old High German swarz black, Latin sordes dirt
The first known use of swart was before the 12th century
1 Sweet Proserpine you here behold Far from her corn-crowned mother's care, Dragged down by Pluto, swart and old, His dismal throne to share.
2 Some of the salesmen stood by their laden carts ready, on the approach of a likely customer, to thrust a hand into the mass of swart animalism and extract a protesting squeaker.
3 This smallish green has a couple of challenging pin positions, should you need to know when to attack and when to play swart and safe.
短小的果岭却有几个刁钻的旗杆位,你应该知道何时要冒个险,何时要明智、安全一点。
4 Its purpose is the same: separation from what Afrikaners call the swart gevaar or "black threat."
5 Meanwhile it also studied the feasible tools and methods used in project plan and schedule control, such as SWOT analysis, SWART principle, WBS etc. in this paper.
同时,对项目的计划与进度控制过程中所使用的具体方法进行了研究,诸如swot分析、SWART原则、WBS分解等。
6 He describes himself as of "swart and melancholy face."
7 Old Pluto scarce wears diadem so base, Sits scarce so swart enthron'd in his own place.
8 Her apples were swart blackberries, Her currants pods o’ broom; Her wine was dew of the wild white rose, Her book a churchyard tomb.
9 Publicans and tax farmers of many hues and varied garbs were there from many distant climes—the swart Egyptian, the olive Syrian, the graceful Greek, the pale-faced yellow-haired German or Briton.
10 Superhuman strength animating him for a moment he struggled up, his swart face stiffening, his eyes flashing.
11 Then they sent for wig-makers and seamstresses, and she was adorned and dressed like a princess; but for all their washing and bedizening, she remained swart and homely.
12 One glance more I took at the dead man's face in that vague foredawn, and its swart meagreness seemed to have passed off under death's composing hand.
13 “The swart hell—a land void of light, and full of flame,” is like Milton’s— ——yet from these flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
14 The Egyptian worshipped there the crocodile; There they of Nineveh the bull with wings; The Persian there with swart, sun-lifted smile Felt in his soul the writhing fire's bright stings.
15 See him there With pouching shirt-front and disordered hair, Talking to Cramp the sturdy, Irreverent R. A. And he,—that's Joyce, The shaggy swart Silenus, with a voice Much like a hurdy-gurdy.
16 The rich and dainty ladies of fashion Stand aloof from these swart coal-hewers, Are ready to swoon as the air is poisoned With odours of subterranean foulness.
17 The features were swart and the upper lip darkened with the more than incipient moustache of the southern brunette.
18 The cotton cloth in every degree of impurity, floats over the swart shoulder both of noble and of serf.
19 Charity on his cuirass burns, and in His courage is the bounding overthrow Of instinct swart with sin.
20 Their thoughts were of brandy and of the swart women of Martinique, when Tamango and his fellow—conspirators were brought up on deck.