blanch
vt. 漂白, 使变白 vi. 发白
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释义与例句
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1.
To grow or become white.
不及物His cheek blanched with fear.
The rose blanches in the sun.
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2.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
及物to blanch linen
Age has blanched his hair.
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3.
To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
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4.
To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
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To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
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To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
及物to blanch almonds
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7.
To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
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To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
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To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
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1.
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
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2.
To cause to turn aside or back.
to blanch a deer
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3.
To use evasion.
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From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Cognates Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.
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