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形容詞

translucid (comparative more translucid, superlative most translucid)

1. Translucent.
   • 1631, [Francis Bacon], “9. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red

   • 1844, Emerson, The Poet:

     This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

   • 2013, Alice Fabre, Metal Language:

     Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.

Further reading

• translucid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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