amber

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n. 琥珀, 琥珀色 a. 琥珀色的, 琥珀似的

发音

UK /ˈam.bə/
US /ˈæm.bɚ/
AU

词形变化

ambers 复数 ambers ambered ambering ambers 三单 ambering 现在分词 ambered 过去式 ambered 过去分词 more amber 比较级 most amber 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

琥珀；琥珀色

动词

使呈琥珀色

形容词

琥珀色的；琥珀制的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

    可数 废旧 不可数

    As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. […] Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.

    The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.

    Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.

  2. 2.

    Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

    Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

    琥珀

    可数 不可数

    To shew this by example, we reade of Sabina Poppcea, to whom nothing was wanting, but shame and honestie, being extremely beloved of Nero, had the colour of her haire yellow, like Amber, which Nero esteemed much of, […] .

  4. 4.

    A yellow-orange colour.

    琥珀色

    淡黄色

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.

    澳大利亚 可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

    可数 不可数 化学 生物 医学

    an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor

  7. 7.

    Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

    不可数 可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

    罕用 及物

    ambered wine, an ambered room

  2. 2.

    To preserve in amber.

    罕用 及物

    an ambered fly

  3. 3.

    To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

    文学 诗歌 罕用 及物
  4. 4.

    To take on the yellow colour of amber.

    不及物 文学 诗歌 罕用
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

gold

上位词 2

yellow yellowness
形容词

近义相关 1

chromatic

相关短语

amber nectar amber alert amber alerts amber gambler amber light amber lights amber gamblers amber fluid 啤酒 amber greace amber greece amber nectars amber fluids amber tree amber trees

词源

From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”). * The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".

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