Aunt Sybil had pink-rimmed azure eyes and a waxen complexion. 估计她一心希望,如果我将来不幸成为鳏夫,也会是比我父亲好的鳏夫。
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 27 笼内怎样满了雀鸟,他们的房中也照样充满诡诈。所以他们得成为大,而且富足。
waxen
[ adj ]
made of or covered with wax
<adj.pert> waxen candles careful, the floor is waxy
having the paleness of wax
<adj.all> the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him a thin face with a waxy paleness
Wax \Wax\ (w[a^]ks), v. i. [imp. {Waxed}; p. p. {Waxed}, and Obs. or Poetic {Waxen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waxing}.] [AS. weaxan; akin to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw. v["a]xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. ? to increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow. [root]135. Cf. {Waist}.] 1. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
The waxing and the waning of the moon. --Hakewill.
Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. --P. Plowman.
2. To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
Your clothes are not waxen old upon you. --Deut. xxix. 5.
Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. --Milton.
{Waxing kernels} (Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. --Dunglison.
Waxen \Wax"en\, a. 1. Made of wax. ``The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells.'' --Milton.
2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.
3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.
Men have marble, women waxen, minds. --Shak.
{Waxen chatterer} (Zo["o]l.), the Bohemian chatterer.