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单词 ashen
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ashen1

adjective ˈaʃ(ə)nˈæʃən
  • 1(of a person's face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness.

    (脸色因惊吓、害怕或疾病而)苍白的

    Eleanor's ashen face
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His face was ashen by this point, and he could barely hear his own voice.
    • He had a shock of dark blue hair that, yesterday, had blond roots, and his smooth skin was an ashen color, suggesting that he'd been sick for a long time.
    • His face was ashen white and the grip he had on my sleeve tightened.
    • She turns to look at him; his face is ashen, and there is a cigarette in his hand.
    • His ashen face was animated by genuine interest.
    • His face was ashen as she started to advance upon him.
    • The rest of us just continue to be stressed out, over worked, ashen and grey faced and up to our necks in debt.
    • Jasmine had a blanket around her shoulders, her face ashen white.
    • His face was ashen, and he didn't say a word for several minutes.
    • Daphne freezes, seeing the sudden fear on her father's ashen face.
    • Their faces were ashen, sorrow staring back from hollow eyes.
    • This Pastor was an older, gaunter man; his face was ashen and he seemed very weary, having been worn down by the endless petitions of the last few days.
    • Katie's face was pale and ashen and her eyes were glassy.
    • Utter terror was conveyed across his ashen face.
    • When he saw her ashen face, concerned flooded him.
    • The ashen face in the bed twisted in pain, pale lips parting and pressing together.
    • As soon as I reached my work place I saw ashen faces and tears in the eyes of my colleagues.
    • His face was ashen, a yellowish grey color that spoke of death.
    • His face was ashen white, and he looked like a ghost, his skin almost translucent.
    • Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks.
    • Giovanni sighed, smiling happily, which added color to his ashen cheeks.
    • Erik nodded, his eyes still locked on his father's ashen face.
    Synonyms
    pale, wan, pasty, grey, leaden, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ghostly
    pale-faced, ashen-faced, grey-faced, anaemic, bloodless
    rare etiolated, lymphatic
  • 2literary Of or resembling ashes.

    (与)灰(有关)的,像灰的

    the ashen colour of the landscape
    the ashen morning sky

    早晨灰白色的天空。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A thin plume of ashen smoke drifts into the crystalline sky.

Rhymes

fashion, passion, ration

ashen2

adjective ˈaʃ(ə)nˈæʃən
archaic
  • Made of timber from the ash tree.

    〈古,诗/文〉梣木制成的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown.

ashen1

adjectiveˈæʃənˈaSHən
  • 1Of the pale gray color of ash.

    灰白色的

    the ashen morning sky

    早晨灰白色的天空。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His hair was a chilling black color, his skin was ashen gray, and his eyes were a chilling blue.
    • Conor absently noticed the two staves next to them; on was dark green and the other an ashen gray, both cut to different lengths.
    • The ashen plaster on the walls was flaking and turning gray and the lime green tiling on the floor was cracked and rotted.
    • Sulphurous vapors, ashen clouds, sickening heat-filled waves blew through the spectral skies.
    • The wasteland night flashed and trembled in a storming dry heat with sparks of light upon the ashen sky.
    • There was a grim rustling on the air, and fire and smoke lit up the ashen sky.
    • About 3 days afterward the skin on his forehead, hands, lower legs, and feet was an ashen color and very irritated, and it peeled away.
    • Her hair was drier than Egewe had ever seen it, and crusted with dirt and dust to the point that it appeared almost ashen in colour.
    • The cold weather had reappeared as quickly as it had vanished on Monday, and snow flurries began dropping from an ashen sky.
    • He was taller than all his men with long ashen hair and piercing gray eyes.
    • They had the tall curve of elms, the tenuity of poplars, the ashen colour of olives under a rainy sky; and they stretched ahead of me for half a mile or more without a break in their arch.
    • Through years of boot soles and Border collie paws the unfinished plank floor has grayed and smoothed to ashen silk.
    • After application of the peeling agent, the skin becomes white-frosted then ashen gray.
    • It was the color of an ashen dove and reached her ankles.
    1. 1.1 (of a person's face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness.
      (脸色因惊吓、害怕或疾病而)苍白的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When he saw her ashen face, concerned flooded him.
      • His face was ashen as she started to advance upon him.
      • Utter terror was conveyed across his ashen face.
      • Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks.
      • His face was ashen by this point, and he could barely hear his own voice.
      • The ashen face in the bed twisted in pain, pale lips parting and pressing together.
      • Erik nodded, his eyes still locked on his father's ashen face.
      • This Pastor was an older, gaunter man; his face was ashen and he seemed very weary, having been worn down by the endless petitions of the last few days.
      • He had a shock of dark blue hair that, yesterday, had blond roots, and his smooth skin was an ashen color, suggesting that he'd been sick for a long time.
      • The rest of us just continue to be stressed out, over worked, ashen and grey faced and up to our necks in debt.
      • Daphne freezes, seeing the sudden fear on her father's ashen face.
      • His ashen face was animated by genuine interest.
      • Katie's face was pale and ashen and her eyes were glassy.
      • She turns to look at him; his face is ashen, and there is a cigarette in his hand.
      • His face was ashen, a yellowish grey color that spoke of death.
      • Giovanni sighed, smiling happily, which added color to his ashen cheeks.
      • His face was ashen, and he didn't say a word for several minutes.
      • His face was ashen white and the grip he had on my sleeve tightened.
      • As soon as I reached my work place I saw ashen faces and tears in the eyes of my colleagues.
      • His face was ashen white, and he looked like a ghost, his skin almost translucent.
      • Their faces were ashen, sorrow staring back from hollow eyes.
      • Jasmine had a blanket around her shoulders, her face ashen white.
      Synonyms
      pale, wan, pasty, grey, leaden, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ghostly
    2. 1.2 Of or resembling ashes.
      (与)灰(有关)的,像灰的
      the volcano's ashen breath

      火山灰白色的气息。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A thin plume of ashen smoke drifts into the crystalline sky.

ashen2

adjectiveˈæʃənˈaSHən
archaic
  • Made of timber from the ash tree.

    〈古,诗/文〉梣木制成的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown.
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