sallow:灰色的,苍白的,气色不好的 vt. vi. (使)成菜色 n. 柳属植物,柳枝 语料库共检中 316 条:美剧 1 · 电影 0 · 原著 315 · 演讲 0
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Were the state of poor sallow English ploughers and weavers, what we may call the Sallow or Yellow Emancipation interest, as much in object with Exeter-Hall Philanthropists as that of the Black blockheads now all emancipated, and going at large without work, or need of working, in West-India clover (and fattening very much in it, one delights to hear), then perhaps the Home Office, its huge virtual task better understood, and its small actual performance better seen into, might be found still more deficient, and behind the wants of the age, than the Colonial itself is.英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
There was one person, however, who cherished a strong suspicion that the Centipedes had had a hand in the business; and that person was Conway. His red hair seemed to change to a livelier red, and his sallow cheeks to a deeper sallow, as we glanced at him stealthily over the tops of our slates the next day in school. He knew we were watching him, and made sundry mouths and scowled in the most threatening way over his sums.英文原著 · 《The Story of a Bad Boy》
"Look off, dear love, across the sallow sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea, How long they kiss in sight of all the lands, Ah! longer, longer we."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Imagine my feelings on the mat! The sallow secretary went first; the sequins glittered at his heels, and I must own that for one base moment I was on the brink of bolting through the street door. It had never been shut behind us. I shut it myself in the end. Yet it was small credit to me that I actually remained on the same side of the door as Raffles.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"Think you know him?" asked the sallow secretary, as I stooped and peered with my heart in my boots.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
He has the sallow, drawn countenance Associated with an overactive thyroid gland.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》