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Swarthy describes a person with dark skin — but it is a very particular kind of "dark", and the word carries a lot of old baggage, so read this carefully before you use it. It is used for skin that is dark in a brownish, weathered, sun-touched way. Traditionally writers used it for people from southern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or for sailors and farmers whose faces had been browned by years of sun and wind. It is almost always about a man, and almost always about the face. You will meet it far more often in a novel than in real conversation. Here is the thing your dictionary may not tell you: the word is not neutral. In older books it is often paired with words like "villain", "stranger", "pirate" — the swarthy man is the one who is not from here, the one you should not trust. Because of that history, many people today feel the word is unpleasant, even racist, and avoid it entirely. Some writers still use it , meaning nothing but "dark-skinned", and older readers may not blink at it. But you cannot control which reading your listener has. So my advice: know it when you read it, and let it stay there. If you want to describe someone's skin in your own English, say "dark-skinned", or "tanned", or name the colour. You lose nothing.
黝黑的、膚色黝黑的（多形容男性，尤指被太陽曬黑或地中海一帶的膚色）。注意：這個字在英文小說裡常帶有貶意，帶有「外來的、不可信的」暗示，現代人多半避免使用，讀懂就好，自己不要用。
組成From an older form swarty, which is swart + -y. Swart comes from Old English sweart, meaning "black" or "dark". So the word is, at bottom, just "blackish".
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- swartthe older, shorter form of the same word — still found in old poetry, meaning dark or black
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
swarthyadj/ˈswɔɹði/
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Tawny, dusky, dark.
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derogatoryDark-skinned; black.
- Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
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Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan.
- the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People
- Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
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A dark grey color.
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Evil, malicious.
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Weathered, rough.
- Mason: "Okay, how do I look, really?" Betty: "…'Swarthy.'" Mason: "Well, is that good?" Betty: "Depends if you like 'swarthy.'" Mason: "Do you like 'swarthy'?" Betty: "Not particularly."
swarthynoun/ˈswɔɹði/
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A swarthy person.
- Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain
- Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。