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美:[ˈwæksən]
英:[ˈwæksn]
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wax·en
waek sihn
词根:wax
adj.wax 蜡制的;似蜡的
waxy 柔软的;蜡色的;像蜡的;苍白的
n.wax 蜡;蜡状物
waxiness 蜡质;可塑;柔软
waxwork 蜡像;蜡制品;蜡像馆
vi.wax 月亮渐满;增大
vt.wax 给…上蜡
Adjective
1. made of or covered with wax;
"waxen candles"
"careful, the floor is waxy"
2. having the paleness of wax;
"the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker
"the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"
"a thin face with a waxy paleness"
古英语 wexen; 参见 wax (n.) + -en (2)。
The first known use of waxen was before the 12th century
waxenadjective
of or like wax
1 The bushes were dark evergreen and aromatic and the many buds were waxen green and folded up against the light.
2 Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor.
散普丽斯姆姆却和白蜡一样白.
3 At the end of 70 days, they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body in bandages of waxen cloth.
4 Their waxen plastic color is somewhere between weathered Cor-Ten steel, archetypal for industrial sculpture, and smooth milk chocolate.
5 waxen images
蜡像
6 Hair 13: The shining gleaming streaming flaxen waxen goes bald.
7 And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, And waxen in their mirth.
8 If thy brother … be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant.
9 She merely dreaded towns and disliked those over-glorious waxen cenotaphs that were raised to the memory of the humble flowers she knew.
10 Yossarian was stunned at how waxen and ghastly Snowden’s bare leg looked, how loathsome, how lifeless and esoteric the downy, fine, curled blond hairs on his odd, white shin and calf.
11 I found an opportunity to exchange some words with him, the others rushing out into the yard, waxen clogs a-thumping, to place bets upon a battle royal between a mongoose and an asp.
12 It was Mrs. Dalton, sitting quietly, her frail, waxen hands folded in her lap.
13 The faces in the pews around me were waxen with candlelight, and pine boughs, left over from Christmas, sent up a sepulchral incense in the cold air.
14 She went to parties as Lady Macbeth, with a waxen hand attached to her throat.
15 Rage turned Mother’s face waxen and her lips purple; she stood at the stove shaking from head to toe.
16 Therefore it was I went on upon the same plan, sitting like a waxen virgin in a shrine, letting adorers come and worship as much as they pleased, and taking notice of none.
17 Mr. Haleet, 30, a tailor, traditionally a very respectable profession in Syria, played down the ills and tried to cheer up his wife, 23, whose face appeared waxen.
18 "He shows off a pleasant singing voice," Dziemianowicz says, "but he's waxen and not animated enough to make Finch soar."
19 Spend two minutes watching a waxen House Speaker Paul D. Ryan try to explain the benefit of tax cuts, and that point will be thoroughly confirmed.
20 Urs Fischer offers a literally waxen redeployment of antique statuary: a candle in the shape of the Three Graces, the central goddess facing backward, their absent heads turned into burning wicks.
1 苍白
peelie-wally light white green sick wan pale lunar lily bleak ghostly colorless waxy sickly ghastly pasty lurid bloodless mealy ashy pallid washy paly white-livered tallowy whiteness pallor ash-pale gray ashen doughy white-faced cadaverous etiolated paleness white as a sheet look sick pale as a ghost white as a ghost peaky as white as a sheet blank complexion lymphatic colourless caesious ash sickliness chalk blench
2 蜡
3 光滑
smooth sleek marble slick glossy satin satiny svelte lubricious sleekit glary polish velvet lubricity sleeken surface gloss levigate clear flat silky glassy silken smoothly
4 光滑的
smooth sleek marble slick glossy satin satiny svelte lubricious sleekit glary waxy glabrous glacé clear flat silky glassy silken
5 可塑的
7 柔顺的
soft flexible tame supple meek Pliable malleable yielding sheepish buxom submissive waxy pliable biddable
8 上过蜡的
9 可塑
11 柔顺
soft flexible tame supple meek Pliable malleable yielding sheepish buxom submission pliancy submissive waxy pliable biddable tamely waxiness mansuetude
12 苍白的
peelie-wally light white green sick wan pale lunar lily bleak ghostly colorless waxy sickly ghastly pasty lurid bloodless mealy ashy pallid washy paly white-livered tallowy White WAN lymphatic Grey colourless ashen peaked ash-pale gray doughy white-faced cadaverous etiolated white as a sheet look sick pale as a ghost white as a ghost peaky as white as a sheet drawn grey watery wintry washed-out blank complexion caesious
13 涂蜡的
14 病态的
15 蜡黄的
19 柔软
mollescent kind soft velvet satin limp supple waxy Pliable yielding emollient silken ductile limber lithe bendy buxom pulpy pillowy satiny cushiony cottony crumby lissom wandle sarcenet quaggy pultaceous buff pulpous plastic fluffy nappy mushy velvety pliable downy willowy pily softly softness waxiness unlimber pulpify