词为我用 - wan

词汇释义

wanUK  /wɒn/  US  /wɑːn/ TEM8  GRE

adj, If you describe someone as wan, you mean that they look pale and tired. 苍白的，有倦容的，疲惫的

外刊例句

1. In the forest, there are no horizons and so the dawn does not break but is instead born in the trees – a wan and smoky blue.(The Guardian)

2. Long lace sleeves, tiny corsets, pooling trains and a mountain of crystals made for a rather wan, two-dimensional sort of glamour.(The Guardian - Lifestyle)

3. "They would say things like, 'that wan American smile'," says Dr Barry Gibson, a medical sociology lecturer at the University of Sheffield.(The Guardian - Lifestyle)

4. That has helped keep sovereign-bond yields low, despite a recent bout of volatility, which has encouraged investors to buy risky assets and allowed stockmarkets to shrug off weak economic data. American GDP fell in the first quarter, and early indications for the second quarter are wan: the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model suggests annualised growth of just 1.1%.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

wan + smile, people

词汇来源

Old English wann "dark, dusky, lacking luster," later "leaden, pale, gray," of uncertain origin, and not found in other Germanic languages. The connecting notion is colorlessness. Perhaps related to wane. Related: Wanly; wanness.

近义词

pale, pallid, ashen, anemic, colorless, bloodless, waxen

反义词

flushed, ruddy

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