| 单词 | etiolated |
| 例句 | Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Outdoorsmen were vigorous, muscular Christians — nothing like those studious urban types, as Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, “with their pale, sickly etiolated indoor thoughts!” How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Like the etiolated hero of “Partisans,” my uncle believed that his privileged background and private schooling had stunted his personal growth. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z So did Alberto Giacometti, represented here by his “Standing Woman,” of 1948, an emaciated, etiolated bronze of the type that Giacometti’s friend, Jean-Paul Sartre, compared to “the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald.” ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Working on them made him feel slack and etiolated, like a marathoner forced to stagger around the track a second time. ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Her people have elongated faces and pale forms; they’re etiolated Modiglianis. Books of The Times: Inventing a Graphic Treatment for the Curies 2010-12-21T17:05:40Z Though experts in authentic Spanish idioms might shudder, it’s good to see fresh evidence of the old Bolshoi ardor in national dances, much needed after the wretchedly etiolated versions in Yuri Grigorovich’s “Swan Lake.” Bolshoi Ballet Performs ‘Don Quixote’ With a Smile 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z “Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.” Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z It shows three tiny figures, two with headlamps, peering down from the cliff, etiolated in the manner of a little cave painting — Biddle, Champion and me. A Grand Canyon and slot-canyon challenge for the mostly over-the-hill set The tradition lives on today, in etiolated form, in commercial wax museums. Review: ‘Degas’ Little Dancer,’ at National Gallery At MOMA, black eggshells disfigure a copy of Le Soir reporting on the Congo; the etiolated potted palms at the entrance to the exhibition recall Belgium’s rapacity in central Africa. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z One woman in his new novel is described as “so etiolated by Bikram yoga that she looked like gristle.” Books of The Times: Marcel Theroux’s Eccentric ‘Strange Bodies’ 2014-02-13T20:41:07Z To me, though, “Romance in Marseille” reflects the 1930s discovery and celebration of outcasts, rogues and criminals, all of them regarded as more vital and passionate than the upright citizens of etiolated bourgeois society. Review | Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z He is no longer just the arch mannerist, the etiolated epigone of Michelangelo, perverse and stylised in equal measure. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Succulent varieties that require more direct light will become etiolated and lose color without it. Making time to care for your indoor house plants 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And since a disproportionate number of the etiolated banks were in Italy, the flatlining Italian economy might receive a modest boost if its banks become more robust. Eurozone solves yesterday's problem 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z It is not surprising that early racing paintings show animals that are etiolated and apparently long in the back: they are trained until every ounce of ‘condition’ – spare flesh – is sweated away. The Rail: The Rail Bookshelf: 'Eclipse' 2012-06-04T16:48:17Z The undergrowth was green, but in the etiolated way of plants which have little light, though that may have been my fancy. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z However, when succulents become etiolated, they can only grow thicker new growth once sunlight is corrected. Making time to care for your indoor house plants 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The green colour of etiolated plants may be restored by exposure to light. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z "It looks like a sort of etiolated, elongated pyramid," he explains. On the site of UK's tallest building 2011-01-27T11:02:05Z It is a sign of the etiolated nature of the recovery that both options are currently "in play". Global recovery's weakness raises possibility of trade war 2010-10-03T23:03:00Z Many other mothers, possibly used to the sight by now, pushed their own full strollers by the empty, etiolated version without so much as a sideways glance. Big City: A Ghost Stroller Puzzles Park Slope, Brooklyn 2010-08-17T02:01:00Z One afternoon from his window Michael was pondering the etiolated season whose ghostliness was more apparent in Leppard Street, because no fall of leaves marked material decline. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Two Seedlings of Sinapis alba of Equal Age A, Grown in the dark, etiolated. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Because of this fact, magnesium-starvation produces etiolated plants, which cannot function normally. The Chemistry of Plant Life Pauline surrendered, and they went across the etiolated lawn towards the entrance. Plashers Mead A Novel Unless you blend with it the true and good, your love of beauty will degenerate into the merely sensuous æsthetics, which, at the present day, renders its votaries fastidious, etiolated voluptuaries. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part In America the sentiment of the etiolated, the brainless, the prudish, the hypocrite is the censor. Ivory Apes and Peacocks They are so deeply absorbed in economic interests and rival influences, that all desire of aspiring to a higher social ideal is paralyzed and etiolated in them. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But no matter how etiolated and sickly the thought, it regains its colour and health when it breathes the literary air. The Book of Khalid And he had a kind of sickness very repulsive to a sensitive girl, something cunning and etiolated and degenerate. The Rainbow No sunshine, no flowers; darkness produces thin, etiolated, whitened, and feeble shoots at the best. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John In the former case chlorophyll seems never to be formed in the affected parts, even if they be exposed to light, while an etiolated organ, when placed under favorable circumstances, speedily assumes a green colour. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants It can thus develop its personality so that it does not become etiolated and atrophied like a domestic animal. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Also, growth of the tops of these trees was etiolated and spindly, and the shoots produced few or no catkins as compared with the abundant catkins produced by the unpruned trees. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 I am going to put back these curtains, and let in some light,—you will become etiolated. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Besides a few humans they contain nothing save lean dogs and etiolated poultry; cattle, sheep, and even pigs are wholly unknown. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative An etiolated earth would be hardly worth living in. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Instead of their existence becoming etiolated under the weight of domestic duties, and under the sword of Damocles of examinations, they thrive by living as far as possible among the things they ought to learn. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study It is well known that the origin of chlorophyl in the plant is entirely connected with light, so that etiolated leaves growing in the dark form no chlorophyl. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 His abstract and etiolated internationalism has been replaced by the warm humanity of writers like, say, David or Pernerstorfer. The Open Secret of Ireland The one, living amid snowclad scenery, where the sparse vegetation is gray and grayish-green, and the birds and animals almost as white as the snow over which they wander, is pale, etiolated. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 She seemed to see them fading in a pathetic decadence, falling like etiolated flowers, and their holy simplicities seemed merely pathetic. Evelyn Innes On this subject we can only build hypotheses, but the study of nature shows us that where conjugation ceases reproduction is etiolated and finally disappears, even when it is still possible for a certain time. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The little drawn face, etiolated and weary-looking, recommends sleep; but Baby is a bad sleeper. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series At Morningside Park I feel as though all my growing up was presently to stop, as though I was being shut in from the light of life, and, as they say in botany, etiolated. Ann Veronica, a modern love story As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough. The Time Machine Suddenly began the plaint of the organ, and some half-dozen voices sang a hymn; and these pale, etiolated voices interested her. Evelyn Innes They have not the wild solemnity of the desert folk, nor yet the etiolated, gentle graces of the Tunisian citizen class; much less the lily-like personal beauty of the blond Algerian Berbers. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia He felt as the etiolated grass and daisies must do when you move the garden roller away to a new place. The History of Mr. Polly Continuous electric light had very curious effects; the plants became etiolated, as if growing in darkness, with the exception that they assumed a deep green tinge. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation His appearance was that of a little Indian Rajah, an etiolated youth twenty-four or twenty- five years old, plain and thin-bearded, with a yellow complexion, wrinkled brows and protruding eyes. First Footsteps in East Africa Then the pale, etiolated voices of the nuns, the wailing of these weak voices—there were three altos, three sopranos—began again. Evelyn Innes Philip the Third was an etiolated and perfumed dandy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists The first seedling observed was nearly two inches in height and had been etiolated by having been grown in darkness. The Power of Movement in Plants The Amir was an etiolated young man of twenty-four or twenty-five, plain and thin-bearded, with a yellow complexion, wrinkled brows and protruding eyes. The Life of Sir Richard Burton These etiolated plants produced a few pale flowers, and added a touch of indescribable sadness and sweetness to the picture offered by this window, in which the two figures were appropriately framed. A Second Home Evelyn hummed the plain chant under her breath, afraid lest she should extinguish the pale voices, and surprised how expressive the antique chant was when sung by these etiolated, sexless voices. Evelyn Innes |
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