cadaverous
英 [kə'dæv(ə)rəs]
美[kə'dævərəs]
- adj. 尸体样的；惨白的
英英释意
- 1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
- "emaciated bony hands"
- "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
- "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
- "small pinched faces"
- "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
英文词源
- cadaverous (adj.)
- "looking like a corpse," early 15c., from Latin cadaverosus "corpse-like," from cadaver (see cadaver). Related: Cadaverously; cadaverousness.
实用场景例句
- His face matched his body, and was lean, almost cadaverous.
- 他的身子和脸很相配, 瘦得象骷髅.
辞典例句
- By degrees the freshest among them began to cadaverous and saucer - eyed.
- 原先脸色顶鲜明的人,现在也都渐渐变得面无人色,两只眼睛也都显得眍了.
辞典例句
- He had a cadaverous face.
- 他面如死灰.
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- We had long anticipated his cadaverous end.
- 我们早就预见到了他凄惨的结局.
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