English Dictionary

sallow

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsæ.ləʊ/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(intransitive) To become sallow. / (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）血色が悪くなる、青白くなる / （他動詞）（誰かや何かを）血色が悪くなるようにする、青白くする

After weeks without sunlight, his skin began to sallow, making him seem older than he was.

何週間も日光を浴びなかったため、彼の肌は次第に黄ばんで顔色が悪くなり、実際より年上に見えた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To become sallow.

The tan of his sunburnt face and hands contrasted sadly with the sallowing skin of the girl-wife, who, despite his care, was sinking under her task of son-bearing.

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

The climate of this country is the scape-goat upon which all ill looks and ill health of the ladies is laid; but while they are brought up as effeminately as they are, take as little exercise, live in rooms like ovens during the winter, and marry as early as they do, it will appear evident that many causes combine with an extremely variable climate, to sallow their complexions, and destroy their constitutions.

sallows （ present singular third-person ）

sallowing （ participle present ）

sallowed （ participle past ）

sallowed （ past ）