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The word "tan" can refer to tanned skin, the act of becoming tanned by the sun, or a light brown color. It can also be used as a verb meaning to process animal skins into leather.

The word "tan" can refer to tanned skin, the act of becoming tanned by the sun, or a light brown color. It can also be used as a verb meaning to process animal skins into leather.

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[N-SING 单数名词]晒黑的皮肤 If you have a tan, your skin has become darker than usual because you have been in the sun.
  [usu a N]
  • She is tall and blonde, with a permanent tan.

    她高个儿,一头金发,皮肤黝黑。

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[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)(皮肤)晒黑 If a part of your body tans or if you tan it, your skin becomes darker than usual because you spend a lot of time in the sun.
  [V]
  [V n]
  • I have very pale skin that never tans...

    我皮肤很白,怎么也晒不黑。

  • I don't tan...

    我不愿晒黑。

  • Leigh rolled over on her stomach to tan her back.

    莉翻了个身趴下,开始晒后背。

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  • Their skin was tanned and glowing from their weeks at the sea.

    他们在海边呆了几个星期,皮肤晒得黝黑发亮。

3
[COLOUR 颜色词]棕黄色;黄褐色 Something that is tan is a light brown colour.
  • ...a tan leather jacket.

    棕黄色皮夹克

4
[VERB 动词]鞣(革);硝(皮) To tan animal skins means to make them into leather by treating them with tannin or other chemicals.
  [V n]
  • ...the process of tanning animal hides.

    鞣革的过程


Oxford tan / tæn ; NAmE tæn /
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abbreviation
tan tans tanned tanning
verb ( -nn- ) 1 [intransitive ,  transitive ] tan(sb/sth) if a person or their skin tansor is tanned,they become brown as a result of spending time in the sun (使)晒成褐色,晒黑 2 [transitive ] tansth to make animal skin into leather by treating it with chemicals 鞣(革);硝(皮) IDIOMsee
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noun 1 [uncountable ] a yellowish-brown colour 棕黄色;黄褐色 2 ( also sun·tan ) [countable ] the brown colour that sb with pale skin goes when they have been in the sun 晒成棕褐肤色;晒成的棕褐色 to get a tan 晒黑 adjective yellowish brown in colour 棕褐色的;棕黄色的 abbreviation ( mathematics ) tangent 正切 tan / tæn ; NAmE tæn /
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tan1 verb
tan2 noun
tan3 adjective
tantan1 /tæn/ verb (past tense and past participle tanned, present participle tanning)
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1[intransitive, transitive] if you tan, or if the sun tans you, your skin becomes darker because you spend time in the sun:  She has a pale skin which doesn’t tan easily.2[transitive] to make animal skin into leather by treating it with tannin (=a kind of acid)
tan1 verb
tan2 noun
tan3 adjective
tantan2 noun
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1[countable] the attractive brown colour that someone with pale skin gets after they have been in the sun SYN  suntan:  I wish I could get a tan like that.2[uncountable] a light yellowish-brown colour
tan1 verb
tan2 noun
tan3 adjective
tantan3 adjective
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1having a light yellowish-brown colour:  tan shoes2American English having darker skin after spending time in the sun SYN  tanned:  She arrived home tan and rested.
WDF

tan

[tæn]tanned, tanning, tans

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tanned[782] tanning[1060] tans[329]
棕褐色(42%),晒黑(33%),棕褐色的(16%),黝黑(9%)
vi.晒成棕褐色
adj.黄褐色的;鞣皮的
n.(日晒后皮肤的)黝黑色;棕褐色;鞣料;马戏团
vt.鞣(革);晒成褐色
n.(Tan)人名;(俄、土、土库、吉尔)塔恩;(英)坦;(柬、老)丹

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