| 单词 | translucency |
| 例句 | His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And I myself preferred not to see him in strong sunshine, for his pale, membranic skin was no barrier to the light, which pierced deep into the flesh and illumined it to a hideous translucency. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Broad layers of pale colour have been washed in to create an ethereal translucency impossible to imagine in dense, sticky oil. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z And I used egg tempera, because I liked its translucency; it was easy to use. In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Using various unorthodox materials such as wax and nail polish as resists, Cordier painted an irregular grid onto photographic paper, a jaunty mosaic of translucency and opacity in sepia, ocher and umber. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In early poems like “Surprised by Evening,” “Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River,” “The Shadow Goes Away,” “The Grief of Men,” one sees the translucency with which he traces the patterns of spiritual renewal. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Tsujii’s high-octane recital here focused on Debussy and Chopin, repertoire in which translucency and poetry are required along with heroic technique. A 3-encore night with pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii | Classical review 2013-01-23T17:53:37Z But these days, there’s a growing demand for painstakingly customized, natural-looking veneers created by professional dental ceramists, offering a balance of lifelike translucency and opaque whiteness. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z The tubes are wrapped by colored gels that divide them into thirds with tops and bottoms of silvery, greenish white and the middles encircled by candy-colored bands of varying widths and degrees of translucency. Review: Robert Irwin Shows a Calming Installation at Dia:Beacon 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z As she neared the 14 week mark, she requested a nuchal translucency screening to look for possible fetal anomalies and was told, “You’re not planning to abort if there’s something wrong, are you?” Face it, anti-abortion advocates: Pro-choice is pro-life 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z There is a translucency, if not a transparency, to Schulz’s drawing style that allows for such sympathy. The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to “Peanuts” 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Porcelain was a most unlikely invention: totally unlike standard pottery, it achieves its amazing toughness and bone-like translucency through an unlikely combination of white clay, feldspar and quartz heated to 1,200C. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z Rims are ruffled and delicately crisp, thinned to translucency. Mineo Mizuno at Samuel Freeman: serene, whimsical, surprising 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The pianist opened the work with a gorgeous, elegiac solo, the delicacy of Moshier's touch and the translucency of his textures setting the tone for the music yet to come. The spirit of Studs Terkel expressed in jazz 2011-01-25T15:10:16Z The rest of the facade is oddly inert and largely opaque, with little of the lightness or translucency suggested by the word "veil." The new Broad museum, though efficiently designed, really only comes alive on the periphery 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z He adds: “There’s something incredibly expressive about Nakhane, a way in which what’s going on, on the inside, pours out of him. He has a translucency that I knew could work on camera.” Nakhane: 'For as long as I need to, I'm going to talk about being a gay artist' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Another highlight of the forthcoming Bonhams sale is a jadeite double cabochon diamond ring with an evenly intense green color throughout and a jelly-like translucency. As Jade Becomes Rarer, a Thirst for More 2013-05-15T13:37:09Z There is a delicacy, lightness and sometimes translucency to the objects — a counterpoint to the opaque weight of all that wood. Sculpture as personal as it gets 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z They also have certain characteristics, including quality of the crystals, translucency and the color — stones that are richly colored typically have more value. Chemical Compounds That Incite Oohs and Aahs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The whole thing is reminiscent of watercolour's effects – the translucency, the broken brushstrokes, the way that light passes through it. Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration 2011-02-14T21:31:01Z "There's glowers and soakers," he says: people who have a natural translucency, and people who "no matter what you do," soak up the light without reflecting it back. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z He now mixes a pasty, cold wax in with his linseed oil and paint to create a unique concoction that gives the canvas surface a translucency that he sees as “parallel to the porcelain.” Robert Russell's paintings illuminate the dark history of the slave laborers of Dachau 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Silicone medical gel was used for his chest and back for its translucency when painting and it moves without buckling. The devil is literally in these details for the villainous Vecna of 'Stranger Things' 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z They were able to 3D print a large number of them in a way that the inner translucency and luster of real shells would come across. Inside the animation process for 'Marcel the Shell's' big screen glow up 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Instead, they settled on using a 3D print, which still had to be customized to capture the intricacies and skin-like translucency of a shell. They’ll always have ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Tech-minded, they were attuned to the plastic material’s abstract capacities for luminous translucency and perceptual insight. Review: Artist Kevin Beasley wields resin like amber for trapping life’s transient flies 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The meat should begin to flake and be opaque with a slight translucency in the middle. Sheet-pan salmon with a honey-Dijon glaze hits the mark between tangy and sweet 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The facade was “oddly inert” with little “lightness or translucency,” he noted. Column: Eli Broad was one of L.A.’s most important architectural patrons. He was also one of its most difficult 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Blacker and older skin does not require as much translucency to appear lifelike. The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The true-to-size silhouettes that result after exposure are spare but mesmerizing, delivering rich detail about each aquatic plant's texture, contour and translucency. Victorian photographer Anna Atkins' botanical prints merged science, technology and artistry - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Shots of rippling, folded plastic sheeting, tightly framed and stripped of context, double as meditations on light, shadow and translucency. In Catherine Wagner's luminous photographs, shadows of the great Giorgio Morandi 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Another damaged gene is called FOXQ1, which affects the structure and translucency of hair. The Woolly Mammoth’s Last Stand 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “White is the last thing. It’s shape, and then, translucency.” During awards season, a dazzling smile on the red carpet is pretty equal to wearing the perfect dress 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z However, translucency is only the dominating visual feature in young, white skin. The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps there is room for a bit of translucency, and maybe it’s time to reconsider the question of whether we benefit, on balance, from our glib worship at the Altar of Transparency. The Downside of Transparency 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “It will distract from the translucency either way,” said the Columbia University college student. A New Wrinkle in Summer Style: Lots of Linen 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Transparency is a better thing than opacity, but a little translucency of tone, I think, is better than either. A Point of View: The guilty thrill of reading other people's mail - BBC News 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The second is Yosemite’s heavy use of translucency — something that Brown says he needed to find a way to curb in the name of practicality, but still justify in terms of character. Modern Family's new episode never leaves the screen of a MacBook Pro 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z There’s really no reason not to, unless translucency makes you want to pull your hair out. Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite review 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Translucency The announcement already explained the improvements of using translucency for modal interactions, but I think it’s pretty significant. Is The New Apple iOS 7 Look An Improvement? 2013-06-17T15:15:00Z Its hallmarks are translucency, levity, expansiveness, fluidity and surprising depth. The New iOS 7 Design: What Works, What Needs Work 2013-06-14T16:59:00Z It comes with a new edge-to-edge look that uses translucency to highlight underlying content, new typefaces, and new icons. Apple unveils music streaming service, revamps iOS 2013-06-11T01:09:13Z The scientists improved their model by analyzing slices of three additional human tongues, whose translucency helped reveal the complex interweaving of muscles throughout the organ. ScienceShot: Your Tongue, Inside Out 2013-05-07T19:40:00Z The sky was unstained by a cloud, and glittered with a multitude of stars that shone like points of silver, so that the darkness below had a certain translucency. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z On exposure to light much of the translucency and brilliancy is lost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The supreme beauty of glass is still in the purity, the brilliancy, the translucency of its colour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The new software, designated iOS 7 and announced at Apple's annual developers' conference in San Francisco, sports a streamlined design, employs translucency and a fresh palette of colors, and features animation in apps. Apple unveils music streaming service, revamps iOS 2013-06-11T01:09:13Z With algae, or anything similarly thin, the cyanotype gives information about its thickness and translucency — to beautiful effect. The Surprising Subject of the First Book of Photographs 2011-12-23T18:45:04.903Z And I thought of the sparkling sapphire of the Mediterranean and the cool translucencies of Cuckoo-weir. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Brilliant colour and translucency are as yet not a necessary element, and accordingly the design is worked out solely with a view to its own artistic merit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z And the sailing ships, as if cut out of frailest pearl translucency, were wafting away towards Naples. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The high translucency of “ivory porcelain” depends on the large proportion of felspar in the body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z And thus one may say of his own style that its beautiful translucency is the result of many qualities—felicity, grace, the harmonious grouping of words, a perfect measure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z In that transitory glance he had perceived above the water-line, and continued in the translucency beneath, an outline not easily forgotten. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The white was modulated; so that possessing a slight degree of translucency, it was grey in the thin parts and white in the thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z In those miraculous translucencies swim the strange eye-fish with wings, that sometimes leap out, instinct with joy; moist fish-wings wet the lover's cheek. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z An alternative to blood tests is a nuchal translucency scan a new scan offered by some larger hospitals. 2009-09-02T17:06:00Z This serves to remove the yellowish cast and any translucency occasioned by plodding. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. With their resinous to adamantine lustre and their translucency they also present somewhat the appearance of horn; hence the name hornsilver. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" It flowed with the translucency of honey, "in regular channels, cut finer than art can imitate, and glowing with all the splendor of the sun." Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology This translucency of atmosphere is very common in Southern Africa. Tales of South Africa All its shadows are fuller in color than its lights, owing to the translucency and reflective power of its leaves. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The surface I uncovered was fishy and glassy—a kind of semi-putrid congealed jelly with suggestions of translucency. The Shunned House These last are exceedingly like both in colour and texture, or rather in colour and the amount of translucency, to fine old stained-glass; so also are dead leaves. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass All its shadows are fuller in colour than its lights, owing to the translucency and reflective power of the leaves. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' It is necessary, however, in this matter, carefully to distinguish between translucency and luster. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners He was sure of what he saw, because he could look into the wavy, bluish translucency all glass shows upon its edge. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 It seemed as if the prow kept pushing itself noiselessly into a wall of opalescent green which parted, glistening, and grew to an ethereal, rainbow-like translucency close at hand. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons They were perfectly hard, inflexible, and colourless; possessing a degree of translucency, and exhibiting more the external character of pieces of sculptured marble, than of animated matter. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The translucency or opacity of the different parts of the skull, when a light is placed in its interior, generally indicates the active and inactive organs. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 Through their translucency, as behind thick glass, were seen marine monsters twisting and squirming, terrified at being surprised by daylight in the mysterious depths of the abyss. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The sketch here presented exhibits the degrees of translucency and opacity in a skull which I obtained at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, about fifty years ago. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 And for the translucency of their yellower effects we must bring in the amber. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Long, slender sea-shells with the brown translucency of the tortoise were arranged in the form of fans. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Her brown skin had an exquisite translucency and her eyes were magnificent. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands It is necessary, however, in this matter, carefully to distinguish between translucency and lustre. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The translucency at Firmness, Irritability, and Combativeness, which were active to the last moments of his life, is quite characteristic. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 In the opposite direction rode a pensive girl, her eyes aglow with something deeper than had ever before illumined their translucency. Terribly Intimate Portraits This translucency affects the luster and brightness of lumber. Seasoning of Wood The latter, however, in consequence of defective hardness and translucency, can scarcely be reckoned among the true precious stones. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II For his face was open like a flower right to the depths of his soul, a dark, lovely translucency, vulnerable to the deep quick of his soul. The Lost Girl Its walls, too, have in health a perfect translucency, from which it has derived the name of transparent cornea. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Not merely the external characters of lustre, softness, and translucency, but the all-important quality of uniformity of thread. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 When the intensity of the light and the translucency of the glass and the purity of the mirror are brought together, it will become light upon light. Tablets of the Divine Plan The ideal zero is absolute unity; not a singularity, as the number one, but an indivisibility, a numberlessness, a homogeneity, a translucency, a pure identity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Seeking then for some open avenue, it discerns something which corresponds to a light—a glimmer of translucency in the confused darkness of our material world. Modern Religious Cults and Movements The room across the hall is devoted to the study of the specific gravity, absorption, porosity, permeability, hardness, translucency, etc., of burnt-clay products, all the necessary apparatus being provided. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 Presently the translucency of the egg allows us to observe the fine segmentation of the tiny inmate. Social Life in the Insect World The dashing Ziem, for example, deprived Venice of her translucency; our own Henry Woods and Luke Fildes endow her daughters, who have always a touch of wistfulness, with too bold a beauty. A Wanderer in Venice Beyond them the black cup of the sky was thinning to translucency. The Summons This translucency can only be obtained by thin glazes of colour, by which means each succeeding glaze only partly covers the previous one, the character of the marble being thus produced. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing Then she comes to the leaf forms and the mode in which they are massed, their dulness or translucency, how sunshine affects their brilliancy, as it is above or falls laterally at morn or eve. Doctor and Patient Sun reigns triumphantly, thinning all vapour Into translucency, through which the foliage Bears out in sparkles of full golden greenery. Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems OMy little comrade,O said the man to the boy although he was not a man any longer but more like the murky translucency of a fog. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America The whole scene is Chaucerian in its sharpness of outline and translucency of atmosphere: though there, unfortunately, the resemblance ends. Sterne The twilight deepened, though there was still the strange, glassy translucency of the snow-lit air. Twilight in Italy Ay, here it is: a tiny brilliancy That glances at the light, as careful, still, To keep the pure translucency that first It caught from Heaven. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. Ten-day-old tadpoles fed on pineal present a marked translucency of the skin due to a retraction of the skin pigment cells. The Glands Regulating Personality Menander, then; with him, through the affinity of sympathy, Terence; and Shakespeare and Moliere have this beautiful translucency of language: and the study of the comic poets might be recommended, if for that only. Complete Short Works of George Meredith Then it fell again to the coverlet—thin, flower-like hand, which in its translucency of flesh seemed to have been created by spirit for its chosen abode. A Life's Morning The wild rose of her cheeks made rivalry for an instant with the richer garden blooms, and the subsiding warmth left a pearly translucency as of a lily petal against the light. Demos He could move into the pure translucency of the grey, uncreated water. Women in Love The translucency of the upper sheet, which is retained by the writer, is in this instance necessary to render legible the writing which is on the back of the paper. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures The remainder of the mass is quartz, the translucency of which is strongly contrasted to the opaqueness of the white feldspar and black mica. The Student's Elements of Geology Its darkness varies a little, but the jet blackness of some of the fronds and of the botryoidal masses seems due to the translucency of the successive grey layers. Volcanic Islands The mineral and organic substances it holds in suspension actually increase its translucency. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Then, through those translucencies, As grew my senses clearer clear, Did I see, and did I hear, How under an elm's canopy Wheeled a flight of Dryades Murmuring measured melody. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters Gorgeous it was, with many soft colors blended into unnamable tints and translucencies, and the songs of birds in the thickets as they passed. Cow-Country Menander, then; with him, through the affinity of sympathy, Terence; and Shakespeare and Molière have this beautiful translucency of language: and the study of the comic poets might be recommended, if for that only. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit |
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