英语词汇“wan”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wan1

/wɒn

adjective

1(Of a person’s complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion: she was looking wan and bleary-eyed...

Eli reminded me of an older Bob Dylan, his size and wan complexion and his face.
Judging from his wan appearance, however, it was clear that the show had taken its toll.
Outside, the once splendid Nevski Prospekt (St. Petersburg's O'Connell Street) is in need of a lick of paint and seems to be trying desperately to become European, but its people are grey and wan.

Synonyms

pale, pallid, ashen, white, white as a sheet, grey;

anaemic, jaundiced, colourless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached

rare etiolated

1.1(Of light) pale; weak: the wan dawn light...

Eric Gautier photographed it, with frequent and unnecessary use of the wan light and monochromatic effects that are now high-fashion clichés of their own.
Instead, our wars exposed the limits of our capability and cast a wan light on many of our cherished illusions.
One need only stand in the aisle marked Produce to understand how the wan light obscuring the bruised fruit makes all of our decisions more difficult.

Synonyms

dim, faint, weak, feeble, pale, watery, wishy-washy

1.2(Of a smile) lacking enthusiasm or energy: he gave a wan smile...

The smile she gave Wanda Bryk was the rueful, wan, chastened smile of someone who had just come through a crying spell.
‘Total dedication,’ she said with a somewhat wan smile: she had come in on the day of my visit despite being in intense pain from a suspected slipped disc.
The woman sitting next to me, a blonde South African wearing jeans and fashionable spectacles looks at me, raises an eyebrow, gives me a wan smile and gets up to leave.

1.3 literary (Of the sea) without lustre; dark and gloomy.

Derivatives

wanly

/ˈwɒnli

/ adverb ...

And although the resolution wanly concedes Senate complicity in mob murders, it does little to compensate victims of a racist terrorism that was culture-deep.
Una Vita was published in 1892, and wanly noticed; Senilità, published in 1898, sank into oblivion.
The mystic overtones of a suffering, bearded and often bare-chested man waving wanly to onlookers gazing up at him have also struck chords.

wanness

/ˈwɒnnəs/ noun ...

She maintains her wanness behind a cello, bowing away, all woebegone.
Then he took the perfumed linen sheet, wrapped it round him as a mantle, and turned away, to the wanness of the chill dawn.
Since that little cloud was dispelled all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished.

Origin

Old English wann 'dark, black', of unknown origin.

This is an example of a colour word that has reversed in meaning, like auburn. Until ad 700 wan meant ‘dark, black’, and it did not start to mean ‘pale’ until around 1300. As well as ‘dark’ it originally meant ‘of an unhealthy greyish colour’, particularly of the face of a person who was dead or affected by disease, and this notion of unhealthiness could have provided the connection with ‘pale’.

Rhymes

WAN2

/wan

abbreviation

1 Computing Wide area network.

2Nigeria (international vehicle registration).

From West Africa Nigeria

单词	wan
释义	wan1 /wɒn / adjective 1(Of a person’s complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion: she was looking wan and bleary-eyed... Eli reminded me of an older Bob Dylan, his size and wan complexion and his face. Judging from his wan appearance, however, it was clear that the show had taken its toll. Outside, the once splendid Nevski Prospekt (St. Petersburg's O'Connell Street) is in need of a lick of paint and seems to be trying desperately to become European, but its people are grey and wan. Synonyms pale, pallid, ashen, white, white as a sheet, grey; anaemic, jaundiced, colourless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached rare etiolated 1.1(Of light) pale; weak: the wan dawn light... Eric Gautier photographed it, with frequent and unnecessary use of the wan light and monochromatic effects that are now high-fashion clichés of their own. Instead, our wars exposed the limits of our capability and cast a wan light on many of our cherished illusions. One need only stand in the aisle marked Produce to understand how the wan light obscuring the bruised fruit makes all of our decisions more difficult. Synonyms dim, faint, weak, feeble, pale, watery, wishy-washy 1.2(Of a smile) lacking enthusiasm or energy: he gave a wan smile... The smile she gave Wanda Bryk was the rueful, wan, chastened smile of someone who had just come through a crying spell. ‘Total dedication,’ she said with a somewhat wan smile: she had come in on the day of my visit despite being in intense pain from a suspected slipped disc. The woman sitting next to me, a blonde South African wearing jeans and fashionable spectacles looks at me, raises an eyebrow, gives me a wan smile and gets up to leave. 1.3 literary (Of the sea) without lustre; dark and gloomy. Derivatives wanly /ˈwɒnli / adverb ... And although the resolution wanly concedes Senate complicity in mob murders, it does little to compensate victims of a racist terrorism that was culture-deep. Una Vita was published in 1892, and wanly noticed; Senilità, published in 1898, sank into oblivion. The mystic overtones of a suffering, bearded and often bare-chested man waving wanly to onlookers gazing up at him have also struck chords. wanness /ˈwɒnnəs/ noun ... She maintains her wanness behind a cello, bowing away, all woebegone. Then he took the perfumed linen sheet, wrapped it round him as a mantle, and turned away, to the wanness of the chill dawn. Since that little cloud was dispelled all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished. Origin Old English wann 'dark, black', of unknown origin. This is an example of a colour word that has reversed in meaning, like auburn. Until ad 700 wan meant ‘dark, black’, and it did not start to mean ‘pale’ until around 1300. As well as ‘dark’ it originally meant ‘of an unhealthy greyish colour’, particularly of the face of a person who was dead or affected by disease, and this notion of unhealthiness could have provided the connection with ‘pale’. Rhymes aide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, anon, Asunción, au courant, begone, Bonn, bon vivant, Caen, Canton, Carcassonne, Ceylon, chaconne, chateaubriand, ci-devant, Colón, colon, Concepción, con (US conn), cretonne, don, Duchamp, Evonne, foregone, fromage blanc, Gabon, Garonne, gone, guenon, hereupon, Inchon, Jean, john, Jon, Le Mans, León, Luzon, Mont Blanc, Narbonne, odds-on, on, outgone, outshone, Perón, phon, piñon, Pinot Blanc, plafond, Ramón, Saigon, Saint-Saëns, Sand, Schwann, scone, shone, side-on, sine qua non, Sorbonne, spot-on, swan, thereon, thereupon, ton, Toulon, undergone, upon, Villon, whereon, whereupon, won, wonton, yon, Yvonne WAN2 /wan / abbreviation 1 Computing Wide area network. 2Nigeria (international vehicle registration). From West Africa Nigeria
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