alabaster是什么意思_alabaster怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

alabaster: alabaster: [14] Chaucer was the first English author to use the word alabaster: in the Knight’s Tale (1386) he writes of ‘alabaster white and red coral’. It comes, via Old French and Latin, from Greek alábast(r)os, which may be of Egyptian origin. Scottish English used the variant from alabast until the 16th century (indeed, this may predate alabaster by a few years); and from the 16th to the 17th century the word was usually spelled alablaster, apparently owing to confusion with arblaster ‘crossbowman’.

The use of alabaster for making marbles (of the sort used in children’s games) gave rise to the abbreviation alley, ally ‘marble’ in the early 18th century.
alabaster (n.): translucent whitish kind of gypsum used for vases, ornaments, and busts, late 14c., from Old French alabastre (12c., Modern French albâtre), from Latin alabaster "colored rock used to make boxes and vessels for unguents," from Greek alabastros (earlier albatos) "vase for perfumes," perhaps from Egyptian "a-labaste "vessel of the goddess Bast." Used figuratively for whiteness and smoothness from 1570s. "The spelling in 16-17th c. is almost always alablaster ..." [OED].

词态变化

1. She wore a fine chain about her alabaster neck.: 她细腻光滑、美丽白皙的脖子上戴着一条精致的链子。

2. The floor was marble tile, and the columns alabaster.: 地板是由大理石铺成的, 柱子则是雪花石膏打造而成.

3. The trees, the bushes and the tall ferns are carved with alabaster.: 无论乔木、灌木还是蕨草,都似玉砌冰雕.

4. Rosette gives the impression of alabaster wax suffused with violet.: 叶瓣有一种弥漫着紫罗兰色的哑光石蜡的质感.

oriental alabaster 条带状大理石...

alabaster glass 乳白玻璃,乳色玻璃,...

alabaster column 雪花石膏柱

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specular alabaster 透光蜡石

oriental alabaster phr. 条带大理岩

alabaster glass 乳白玻璃，乳色玻璃，雪花玻璃

alabaster ware 雪花瓷器

alabaster gass 【化】雪花玻璃; 乳色玻璃

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