swarthy

英 ['sw??e?] 美['sw?rei]

近義詞inky black

GRE暢通詞匯

1. PIE root *sword- "dirty, dark, black" => swart, swarth, sordid.
2. swart, swarth => swarty, swarthy.

swarthy 皮膚黑的

來(lái)自 swart,黑黝黝的，-y,形容詞后綴。用以形容皮膚黑的。

swarthy: swarthy: [16] Old English sweart meant ‘black’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swartaz, which also produced German schwarz, Dutch zwart, Swedish svart, and Danish sort, and may go back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as gave Latin sordidus ‘dirty’ (source of English sordid [16]). It survives, just, in modern English as swart ‘dark, black’. From this in the 16th century was derived the now defunct swarty, of which swarthy is an unexplained variant.
=> sordid
swarthy (adj.): "dark-colored," especially of skin, 1580s, unexplained alteration of swarty (1570s), from swart + -y (2). Related: Swarthiness.

1. Our driver strolled up, huge and swarthy.: 我們的司機(jī)悠閑地走了過(guò)來(lái)，他身材高大，膚色黝黑。

3. The sailor was swarthy from the sun of the tropics.: 水手被熱帶的太陽(yáng)曬得黑黝黝的.

4. A Colonel Azizov, a swarthy, sardonic, pipe - smoking Tartar, awaited Levchenko.: 一個(gè)叫阿基佐夫的上校, 在等著列夫欽科. 他皮膚黝黑, 面帶譏諷表情, 嘴里叼著煙斗, 是個(gè)韃靼人.

5. She was tall , slim, rather swarthy, with large saucy eyes.: 她瘦高個(gè), 皮膚黝黑, 有一雙漂亮的大眼睛.