中英互译
whiten
英 /ˈwaɪtn/美 /ˈwaɪtn/
基本释义
- vt.漂白;刷白
- vi.变白
- n.(Whiten)人名;(英)怀滕
第三人称单数whitens
现在分词whitening
过去式whitened
过去分词whitened
双语例句
- Her knuckles whiten as she clenches her hands harder.她的手握得越来越紧,指节都变白了。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- "It's amazing to think that just 60 years ago, we knew next to nothing of the behavior of our sister species in the wild," Whiten says.“就在60年前,我们几乎对自己野生姐妹物种的行为一无所知,真是令人惊讶。”怀滕说。
- Back in 1999, a team of scientists led by Andrew Whiten showed that chimps from different parts of Africa behave very differently from one another.早在1999年,由安德鲁·怀滕领导的一组科学家就发现,非洲各地区黑猩猩的行为方式大不相同。
网络短语
- Whiten and soften美白柔软
- Whiten-Retanning增白复鞣剂
- Dennis Whiten标签
- to whiten美白
- whiten seedling白化苗
词语扩展
词义分布
变白
45.5%
刷白
27.3%
漂白
27.3%
英英释义
- v.turn white
词源
- whitenFrom Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).