sallow
sallow 英 ['sæləʊ] 美 ['sælo]
adj. 气色不好的；灰黄色的 n. 黄华柳；黄华柳细枝 vt. 成土色
进行时:sallowing 过去式:sallowed 过去分词:sallowed 第三人称单数:sallows 名词复数:sallows
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- adj. 气色不好的；灰黄色的
- n. 黄华柳；黄华柳细枝
- vt. 成土色
- vi. 使……变成土色
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1. You could have sallow skin, dry skin, older-looking skin.
你的皮肤有可能变得蜡黄、干燥、皱纹丛生。
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2. A honeysuckle hung forth from the hedge, in full bloom; but there were so many girls like her, with long faces and sallow complexions.
金银花悬在篱笆上。 像她这样的女子，数目还不少；她们都板平面孔，皮肤发黄。
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3. A ray fell on his features; the cheeks were sallow, and half covered with black whiskers; the brows lowering, the eyes deep set and singular.
一道光线照在他的脸上：两颊苍白，一半为黑胡须所盖，眉头低耸，眼睛深陷而且很特别。
- sallow (adj.) Old English salo "dusky, dark" (related to sol "dark, dirty"), from Proto-Germanic *salwa- (source also of Middle Dutch salu "discolored, dirty," Old High German salo "dirty gray," Old Norse sölr "dirty yellow"), from PIE root *sal- (2) "dirty, gray" (source also of Old Church Slavonic slavojocije "grayish-blue color," Russian solovoj "cream-colored"). Related: Sallowness.
- sallow (n.) "shrubby willow plant," Old English sealh (Anglian salh), from Proto-Germanic *salhjon (source also of Old Norse selja, Old High German salaha, and first element in German compound Salweide), from PIE *sal(i)k- "willow" (source also of Latin salix "willow," Middle Irish sail, Welsh helygen, Breton halegen "willow"). French saule "willow" is from Frankish salha, from the Germanic root. Used in Palm Sunday processions and decorations in England before the importing of real palm leaves began.
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