• adj. 透明的；精致的；模糊的

dia-, 穿過。-phan發光，顯現，詞源同phantasm, photo. 即透光的，半透明的。

diaphanous

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).

1. She was wearing a dress of diaphanous silk.

她穿著一件薄如蟬翼的綢服。

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2. The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.

遠處,空氣干燥而明凈,微風吹拂著樹葉發出沙沙的聲音.

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3. Hence the rainforest's high level of humidity , visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudletscanopy.

所以,雨林的空氣十分濕潤, 從觀測站望去,山林籠罩著薄薄的云.

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