sheen

英 [ʃiːn] 美 [ʃin]

解释

※ 提供单词"sheen"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

sheen 光泽，光彩

来自古英语 scene,明亮的，漂亮的，词源同 shine.后形容词作名词使用，引申词义光泽，光彩等。

sheen: sheen: [OE] Despite its similarity in form and meaning, sheen has no etymological connection with shine. It was originally an adjective, meaning ‘beautiful, bright’. Like its relatives, German schön and Dutch schoon, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skauniz, which was derived from the base *skau- ‘see, look’ (source also of English scavenger and show). It was not used as a noun until the early 17th century (it is first recorded in Shakespeare).
=> scavenger, scone, show
sheen (n.): "shining, brightness," 1602 (first attested in "Hamlet" iii.2), noun use of adjective sheene "beautiful, bright," from Old English scene, sciene "beautiful; bright, brilliant," from Proto-Germanic *skauniz "conspicuous" (cognates: Old Frisian skene, Middle Dutch scone, Dutch schoon, Old High German skoni, German schön "fair, beautiful;" Gothic skaunja "beautiful"), from PIE root *skeue- "to pay attention, perceive" (see caveat). Meaning "film of oil on water" is from 1970.

As an adjective now only in poetic or archaic use, but in Middle English used after a woman's name, or as a noun, "fair one, beautiful woman."

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1. The final stage of waxing left it with a satin sheen.: 最后上完蜡后，它看起来犹如缎子般光滑亮泽。

5. Sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed.: 有时河水泛流在圆石子的河床上,晶莹发光.