sheen

来自古英语 scene,明亮的，漂亮的，词源同 shine.后形容词作名词使用，引申词义光泽，光 彩等。

sheen

sheen: [OE] Despite its similarity in form and meaning, sheen has no etymological connection with shine. It was originally an adjective, meaning ‘beautiful, bright’. Like its relatives, German schön and Dutch schoon, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skauniz, which was derived from the base *skau- ‘see, look’ (source also of English scavenger and show). It was not used as a noun until the early 17th century (it is first recorded in Shakespeare).
=> scavenger, scone, show

sheen (n.)

"shining, brightness," 1602 (first attested in "Hamlet" iii.2), noun use of adjective sheene "beautiful, bright," from Old English scene, sciene "beautiful; bright, brilliant," from Proto-Germanic *skauniz "conspicuous" (cognates: Old Frisian skene, Middle Dutch scone, Dutch schoon, Old High German skoni, German schön "fair, beautiful;" Gothic skaunja "beautiful"), from PIE root *skeue- "to pay attention, perceive" (see caveat). Meaning "film of oil on water" is from 1970.

As an adjective now only in poetic or archaic use, but in Middle English used after a woman's name, or as a noun, "fair one, beautiful woman."

1. The final stage of waxing left it with a satin sheen.

最后上完蜡后，它看起来犹如缎子般光滑亮泽。

来自柯林斯例句

2. hair with a healthy sheen

闪着健康光泽的头发

来自《权威词典》

3. Satin has a sheen.

缎有一种光泽.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4. The carpet had a silvery sheen to it.

这地毯有种银色的光泽。

来自辞典例句

5. Sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed.

有时河水泛流在圆石子的河床上,晶莹发光.

来自辞典例句