单词 | wan |
释义 | wan (once / 1061 pages) adjv Someone who is wan is visibly unwell and lacking in energy. If you’ve had the flu for over a week, and you finally get out of bed looking pale and tired, your mother might say that you look wan. When your aunt comes to dinner and eats three helpings of dessert, she might seem a little wan as she drinks her tea, meaning she looks sickly and weak — and no wonder, after so many slices of pie! Wan can also describe a fading light — one that is sickly and weak, just like your aunt. When the light bulb in the living room burns out and leaves only wan twilight filtering in, you’ll find it impossible to read. WORD FAMILYwan: waner, wanest, wanly, wanned, wanner, wanness, wannest, wanning, wans USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Meng eventually became the aide to Wan Li, the former vice premier of China and the pioneer of agricultural reforms. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) This is what it means to be imitated and copied; you get imitated and copied in great ways, and in wan embarrassing ones. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) On and around Ship Street, in the Wan Chai neighborhood of Hong Kong, terse captions under the ghosts tell a sad tale. Seattle Times(Nov 25, 2016) 1adj abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress her wan face suddenly flushed Syn pale, pallid colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful 2adj (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble the wan light of dawn Syn pale, pallid, sick weak wanting in physical strength 3adj lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness a wan smile Syn unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull 4v become pale and sickly Hyper come down, sicken get sick WAN (once / 231752 pages) n WORD FAMILY WAN: WANNER USAGE EXAMPLESBut plug a networked ethernet cable into its WAN port, and you suddenly have an instant hot-spot for connecting your various devices to the web. Time(Dec 10, 2015) Most enterprises understand the pain of WAN management. Forbes(Jun 02, 2015) Different segments of the LAN or WAN have separate keys, preventing hackers from moving around easily. Forbes(Apr 24, 2015) n a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network Syn|Hyper wide area network computer network (computer science) a network of computers |
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