diaphanous: [17] Semantically, diaphanous is the ancestor of modern English see-through. It comes, via medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanés, a compound adjective formed from dia- ‘through’ and the verb phaínein ‘show’. Originally in English it meant simply ‘transparent’, without its present-day connotations of delicacy: ‘Aristotle called light a quality inherent, or cleaving to a Diaphanous body’, Walter Raleigh, History of the World 1614.
diaphanous (adj.)
1610s, from Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanes "transparent," from dia- "through" (see dia-) + phainesthai, middle voice form (subject acting on itself) of phainein "to show" (see phantasm).
实用例句
1. She was wearing a dress of diaphanous silk.
她穿着一件薄如蝉翼的绸服。
来自辞典例句
2. The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.
远处,空气干燥而明净,微风吹拂着树叶发出沙沙的声音.
来自辞典例句
3. Hence the rainforest's high level of humidity , visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudletscanopy.
