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sallow

C2 adj

sallow /ˈsæloʊ/ nghĩa là xanh xao, tái nhợt

Các nghĩa

  1. xanh xao, tái nhợt

    Of a sickly pale colour.

    Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!

    Once a handsome face, with bright color, it was now sallow and deep-lined […]

    […] there was something owl-like about the eyes, round which there was a sallow, hollow depression.

  2. màu vàng nâu (da người Nam Âu hoặc Đông Á)

    Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

    ireland

    A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian.

    She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.

  3. có nước da xanh xao, tái nhợt (đặc biệt ở mặt)

    Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.

    Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.

    She put her hand on the arm of her careworn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet.

    In a matter of hours she was looking gaunt, and sallow: her face had a kind of negative color.

  4. có màu vàng nhạt, tái

    Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.

    The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore […]

    On the opposite bank of the Allier the land kept mounting for miles to the horizon: a tanned and sallow autumn landscape […]

    In a restaurant window little meringue cases, not quite sallow and not quite white.

  5. ô uế, đục, bệnh hoạn

    Foul; murky; sickly.

    The boat's deck was covered in moss, and its warm, sallow water was filled with lichens that gave off an eerie green glow.

    My mouth went dry and a sallow feeling descended upon me.

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