- 1半透明的（透光但看不清）
Describing something that lets light through but that you cannot see clearly through. It sits exactly between transparent (see straight through — a window) and opaque (no light at all — a wall). glass, jade, wax, thin porcelain, a paper lantern, a , a held up to a lamp: all translucent. It is a normal adjective and goes both before the noun and after 'be': 'a translucent shade', 'the were almost translucent'. Beyond the plain physical use, writers use it about skin, and it is one of those descriptions that can go two ways. 'Translucent skin' can mean beautiful, fine, delicate — or it can quietly tell you the person is ill, tired or dying, so pale that the light seems to pass through them. The context decides, and it is worth noticing which the writer means. A third, more stretched use exists in writing about ideas: a 'translucent' explanation or argument is one you can nearly, but not quite, see through — some meaning comes across but not all. That use is rare and slightly literary; the everyday word for a clear explanation is 'lucid' or just 'clear'. The word is neutral in formality — you would not blink at it in a magazine — but it is not common in casual speech, where people say 'you can kind of see through it'.
From the word’s history
From Latin trānslūcēns, present participle of trānslūcēre 'to shine through'.
源自拉丁文 trānslūcēns，trāns「穿過」＋lūcēre「發光」。
組成trans- 'through' + Latin lūceō 'to shine', from an ancient root meaning 'light' + -ent, the ending that makes an adjective. So: shining-through. The light comes through; the picture does not.
同家族的字
- translucencethe noun form — same trans- + lūceō
- lucidsame Latin light root — clear and shining, or clear-thinking
- elucidatesame light root, with e- 'out' — to shed light on something
- Lucifersame light root plus ferre 'carry' — the light-bringer, an old name for the morning star
- illuminatesame ancient light root through Latin lumen — to light up
- luminoussame light root through lumen — giving off light
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translucentadj/tɹænzˈluː.sənt/
- 1
Allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it.
- Near-synonym: semitransparent
- The window-panes, encrusted with perennial deposits of Atmosphere, were less transparent than translucent.
- 2
Clear, lucid, or transparent.
- Mr. Blaine's powers and disposition shone resplendent. . . . the gavel in his practised hand, chiming in with varied tones that aptly enforced his words, from the sharp rat-tat-tat that recalled the House to decorum, to the vigorous thunder that actually drowned unparliamentary speech; rulings, repartee, translucent explanation flashing from his lips as quick as lighting.
- I thought you'd come round to my view, but I own I was startled at your not seeing it from the beginning. The man is a translucent liar and knave.
translucentnoun/tɹænzˈluː.sənt/
- 1
Something that is translucent.
- They can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, and all colors of translucents, transparents and opaques, grained ivory, shell (plain and corrugated mottle), onyx, wood effects, plaids, checks, stripes, metallic, bronze pearl plain, bronze pearl with fancy blocks, bronze pearl in veins and stripes, and what is called “essence pearl.”
- The trademark LaCie «eye» is back, metal is in the house and the translucents are finally in the trash.
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