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Glossy Gloss Words 8733.Glossy 英 Glɒsɪ]美 ɡlɑsi 释义

正面 8733.glossy
英 ['glɒsɪ]美 ['ɡlɑsi]

背面
释义:
adj. 光滑的;有光泽的
例句:
1. The ship would lie there mirrored in a perfectly unmoving glossy sea.船会停靠在那里,映衬在一片波澜不兴的湛蓝海水之中。

1. gloss English has two words gloss. The one meaning 'shining surface' is of unknown origin, although no doubt it belongs ultimately to the general nexus of words beginning gl- which mean broadly 'bright, shining'.2. gloss + -y.

glossy (adj.)"smooth and shining," 1550s, from gloss (n.1) + -y (2). Figurative use from 1690s. The noun sense of "photograph with a glossy surface" is from 1931. Related: Glossies; glossiness."

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