sable
sable 英 [ˈseɪbl] 美 [ˈsebəl]
n. [脊椎] 黑貂；黑貂皮；丧服 adj. 黑的；黑貂皮的；昏暗的
名词复数:sables
- Sable is a fluffy little animal known for its silky dark brown fur. It’s native to Japan, Siberia, and other parts of northern Asia. You may meet up with a sable in a zoo or as somebody's expensive coat.
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- n. [脊椎] 黑貂；黑貂皮；丧服
- adj. 黑的；黑貂皮的；昏暗的
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1. I saw, too, for a few moments of delirious horror, the soft and nearly imperceptible waving of the sable draperies which enwrapped the walls of the apartment.
在一阵惊慌失措之后，我也看见公寓四壁悬挂着貂皮制成的帷幔，柔软轻盈，隐隐约约地微微起伏，几乎很难让人察觉。
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2. He had never actually earned the medical degree he claimed, since there hadn't been any universities in those days, but sable could see she was starving to death.
事实上，他从来没有获得他梦寐以求的医学学位，因为那个时候还没有大学。 但是塞伯尔能够看出她就快饿死了。
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3. But we perhaps exaggerate the grey or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterised the mood and manners of the age.
不过，我们也许过于夸张了这种灰黑的色调，尽管那确实是当年的心情和举止的特色。
- sable (n.1) "fur or pelt of the European sable" (Martes zibellina), early 15c., from Middle French sable (also martre sable "sable martin"), in reference to the mammal or its fur, borrowed in Old French from Germanic (Middle Dutch sabel, Middle Low German sabel, Middle High German zobel), ultimately from a Slavic source (compare Russian, Czech sobol, Polish soból, the name of the animal), "which itself is borrowed from an East-Asiatic language" [Klein], but Russian sources (such as Vasmer) find none of the proposed candidates satisfactory.
- sable (n.2) "black" as a heraldic color, early 14c., commonly identified with sable (n.1), but the animal's fur is brown and this may be a different word of unknown origin; or it might reflect a medieval custom (unattested) of dyeing sable fur black. As an adjective from late 14c. Emblematic of mourning or grief from c. 1600; c. 1800 as "black" with reference to Africans and their descendants, often with mock dignity.
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