swarthy: [16] Old English sweart meant ‘black’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swartaz, which also produced German schwarz, Dutch zwart, Swedish svart, and Danish sort, and may go back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as gave Latin sordidus ‘dirty’ (source of English sordid [16]). It survives, just, in modern English as swart ‘dark, black’. From this in the 16th century was derived the now defunct swarty, of which swarthy is an unexplained variant. => sordid
swarthy (adj.)
"dark-colored," especially of skin, 1580s, unexplained alteration of swarty (1570s), from swart + -y (2). Related: Swarthiness.
实用例句
1. Our driver strolled up, huge and swarthy.
我们的司机悠闲地走了过来，他身材高大，肤色黝黑。
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2. He had a broad swarthy face.
他有一张黝黑的大脸。
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3. The sailor was swarthy from the sun of the tropics.
水手被热带的太阳晒得黑黝黝的.
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4. A Colonel Azizov, a swarthy, sardonic, pipe - smoking Tartar, awaited Levchenko.
