ebony
ebony 英 [ˈebəni] 美 [ˈɛbəni]
adj. 乌木制的，黑檀木制的；似木的，黑檀木色的 n. 乌木，黑檀
名词复数:ebonies
- Ebony is a very dark black color, or a south Asian tropical tree with hard, dark-colored heartwood. Black piano keys and black chess pieces are often made with ebony.
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- adj. 乌木制的，黑檀木制的；似木的，黑檀木色的
- n. 乌木，黑檀
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1. It seemed as if she slept; for her skin was snow white, her cheeks rosy red, and her hair black as ebony.
她看起来就像是睡着了；因为她的皮肤还是雪白的，她的脸颊还是玫瑰红色，她的头发黑的像乌木。
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2. Conservationists say that armed gangs are exploiting the security vacuum to pillage rosewood and ebony from supposedly protected forests on behalf of a so-called "timber mafia".
自然资源保护者说，那些武装匪徒代表一个所谓的“木材黑手党”利用真空安全区在那些原本受到保护的森林里掠夺红木和乌木。
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3. For a long, long time little Snow-White lay in the coffin, but she did not change; she only looked as though she slept, for she was still as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony.
白雪公主就这样一直被安放在小山上，过了很久很久，她的样子看起来仍然像是在那儿安睡，皮肤仍然如雪一样的白嫩，脸色仍然透着血一般的红润，头发仍然如乌木一样又黑又亮。
- ebony (n.) dark, hard wood favored for carving, musical instruments, etc., 1590s, perhaps an extended form of Middle English ebon, or from hebenyf (late 14c.), perhaps a Middle English misreading of Latin hebeninus "of ebony," from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos "ebony," probably from Egyptian hbnj or another Semitic source. Figurative use to suggest intense blackness is from 1620s. As an adjective, "of ebony, made of ebony," from 1590s; in reference to skin color of Africans, by 1813. French ébène, Old High German ebenus (German Ebenholz) are from Latin ebenus.
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