diaphanous

英 [daɪ'æf(ə)nəs]美 [daɪ'æfənəs]
  • adj. 透明的；精致的；模糊的
GRE 畅通词汇

助记提示

1、dia- "through" + phan- "show, appear, be seen" + -ous.
2、=> transparent.

中文词源

diaphanous 半透明的

dia-, 穿过。-phan发光，显现，词源同phantasm, photo. 即透光的，半透明的。

英文词源

diaphanous
diaphanous: [17] Semantically, diaphanous is the ancestor of modern English see-through. It comes, via medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanés, a compound adjective formed from dia- ‘through’ and the verb phaínein ‘show’. Originally in English it meant simply ‘transparent’, without its present-day connotations of delicacy: ‘Aristotle called light a quality inherent, or cleaving to a Diaphanous body’, Walter Raleigh, History of the World 1614.
diaphanous (adj.)
1610s, from Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanes "transparent," from dia- "through" (see dia-) + phainesthai, middle voice form (subject acting on itself) of phainein "to show" (see phantasm).

双语例句

1. She was wearing a dress of diaphanous silk.
她穿着一件薄如蝉翼的绸服。
来自辞典例句
2. The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.
远处,空气干燥而明净,微风吹拂着树叶发出沙沙的声音.
来自辞典例句
3. Hence the rainforest's high level of humidity , visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudletscanopy.
所以,雨林的空气十分湿润, 从观测站望去,山林笼罩着薄薄的云.
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