| 词汇 | whiten |
| 释义 | whiten verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈwaɪ.tən/ us /ˈwaɪ.t̬ən/ to make or become whiter: （使）变白 She had her nicotine-stained teeth whitened.她将她那被尼古丁熏黑的牙齿漂白了。 Her hair had whitened over the years.这么多年来她的头发已经变白了。 Black, white & grey blackness coaly dove grey ebony gray greyish greyly greyness gunmetal grey jet black lily-white pearl pearly pitch dark pitch darkness pitchy sable snow white sombrely sooty whiten | American Dictionarywhiten verb[ I/T ] us/ˈhwɑɪ·tən, ˈwɑɪ-/ whitenverb[I/T] (COLOR)to make something whiter, or to become whiter: [ T ]This toothpaste is supposed to whiten your teeth. Examples of whitenwhiten The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls were whitened with either a wash of clay or with lime. Assortative mating in relation to phenotype operates but is complicated by the fact that money whitens the skin. In racial terms, their ideal moved from whitening (embranquecimento) towards racial democracy. From the perspective of applying our test, we do not require a model of best fit; we only require that the data have been whitened. Each of them has black eyeliner providing lift at the edge of the eyes and each wears the same coral lipstick to set off the same straightened and whitened teeth. Whiten is right about the dissatisfying lack of closure sometimes inherent in the ethnographic approach, its principal weakness. Whiten et al. (1999) published an updated and careful examination of behavioral differences between several populations of chimpanzees. Ishmael makes no reference to whiteness as a racial signifier. But in what way and to what extent do teachers actually represent the state, act to incorporate the local into the national, and participate in its civilising and whitening project? Canessa argues that women become more ' masculinized ' and independent as a result of their husbands' seasonal migration, but not ' whitened' as men are in the army. Upon accession, our situation was deemed acceptable, although it was stressed that work still needed to be done to whiten our economy and rid our public administration of corruption. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He visibly blanched: he definitely whitened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It feeds on developing grass seeds, causing seed heads to shrivel and prematurely whiten. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The meaning of blanching is to whiten, but this is not always the purpose of blanching in cooking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As a strong bleaching agent, it is used in hair dye substances as whitening agent with hydrogen peroxide. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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