album
詞匯起源
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: 'unused surface for writing on', from albus 'white']
A book with blank pages for the insertion and preservation of collections, as of stamps, photographs, or autographs.
A set of musical recordings stored together in jackets under one binding. The holder for such recordings. One or more 12-inch long-playing records in a slipcase. A phonograph record. A recording of different musical pieces.
A printed collection of musical compositions, pictures, or literary selections.
n. 相簿;唱片集;集郵簿;簽名紀(jì)念冊(cè)
albatross alcohol
Any of several large web-footed birds constituting the family Diomedeidae, chiefly of the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere, and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
A constant, worrisome burden. An obstacle to success.
n. [鳥] 信天翁;沉重負(fù)擔(dān);障礙,阻礙
albescent
Becoming white or moderately white; whitish.
adj. 帶白色的;變白的(或正在變白的);微白的
albinism alcoholism
Congenital absence of any pigmentation or coloration in a person, animal, or plant, resulting in white hair and pink eyes in mammals.
The condition of being an albino.
n. [皮膚] 白化病;皮膚變白癥
albino
A person or animal lacking normal pigmentation, with the result being that the skin and hair are abnormally white or milky and the eyes have a pink or blue iris and a deep-red pupil.
A plant that lacks chlorophyll.
n. [皮膚] 白化病者;[遺] 白化體;白化現(xiàn)象
albumen
The white of an egg, which consists mainly of albumin dissolved in water
n. 蛋白;胚乳
詞組短語(yǔ):
albumen powder 蛋白粉
auburn
詞匯起源
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: auborne 'blond', from Medieval Latin alburnus 'whitish', from Latin albus 'white'; probably influenced by brun, an early form of brown]
a reddish-brown or golden-brown color
having auburn color: auburn hair
n. 赤褐色
adj. 赤褐色的,赭色的