diaphanous

• adj. 透明的；精致的；模糊的

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

1. so thin as to transmit light;

"a hat with a diaphanous veil"

"filmy wings of a moth"

"gauzy clouds of dandelion down"

"gossamer cobwebs"

"sheer silk stockings"

"transparent chiffon"

"vaporous silks"

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).

She was wearing a dress of diaphanous silk.

她穿着一件薄如蝉翼的绸服。

辞典例句

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.

辞典例句

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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