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fresh water，freshwater ；

[例句] 盐水比淡水的传导性强得多。 Salt water is much more conductive than fresh water is.

[例句] 淡水和其他商品短缺。 Fresh water and other commodities are in short supply.

dim，dismal，dull，faint，dinginess ；

[例句] 他用暗淡无神的蓝眼睛盯着我看。 He stared at me out of those washed-out blue eyes.

[例句] 给孩子们用的墙纸往往颜色苍白暗淡。 Wallpapers for children too often come only in sickly pastel shades.

indifferent，apathetic，faint，dim ；

[例句] 他感情淡漠，沉默寡言，性格内敛。 He was unemotional, quite quiet, and reserved.

[例句] 不幸的是，结婚八年后，他们的感情日渐淡漠了。 Sadly, after eight years of marriage they had grown apart.

flat，uninteresting，dull，insipid，wateriness ；

[例句] “我认识你。”他平淡地说道，就事论事，不带任何感情。 "I know you," he said flatly, matter-of-fact, neutral in tone.

[例句] 家庭假日就是从平淡的日常生活中解脱一下。 Family holidays are meant to be a break from routine.

dilute，sleak，water down，weaken，diluted ；

[例句] 这故事的生动性被冲淡了. The story has been watered down.

[例句] 他找到了懂得用狂欢来冲淡战争的严酷的志趣相投的军官。 He found congenial officers who knew how to leaven war's rigours with riotous enjoyment.

desalination，weaken ，fade-out；

[例句] 将这两个物种杂交后颜色会由红色淡化成橙色。 Hybridising the two species will reduce the red to orange.

[例句] 伦敦和都柏林方面对此事都在有意淡化。 Both London and Dublin are playing the matter down.

treat coldly，give [show] the cold shoulder to，turn the cold shoulder to sb.，leave sb. in the cold，chillness ；

light，weak，delicate，mild，insipidity ；

[例句] 如果喜欢清淡的口味，可少放或不放辣椒。 If you prefer mild flavours reduce or leave out the chilli.

[例句] 伯蒂做的西红柿清汤清淡可口。 Berti's clear tomato soup is deliciously light.

light colour，undertint，undertone，tinge ；

[例句] 这一设计由淡色的3个长方形和3个三角形构成。 This design is in pastel colours with three rectangles and three triangles.

[例句] 热天穿淡色衣服使人凉爽. The clothes are effective in keeping cool in warm weather.

popcorn，faint yellow，canary，jasmine，primrose yellow ；

[例句] 她一头长发，全部被她自己给染成了淡黄色和浅橙色。 She had long hair she'd bleached herself, all yellowy and orangey.

[例句] 她那淡黄色的长发披垂在双肩. Her long blond hair spilled down over her shoulders.

fresh lake，fresh water lake ；

[例句] 我们所用的地表水几乎全由淡水湖和河流供给. Fresh - water lakes and streams furnish nearly all of our surface water supplies.

[例句] 几千年前, 黑海还是个淡水湖. Millennia ago, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake.

[动] （贻贝干） mussel，californianus，dried mussel meat ；

[例句] 午餐我所吃的淡菜不合我的胃口. The mussels I had for lunch haven't agreed with me.

[例句] 淡菜脆嫩鲜香, 包汁入味, 是温州沿海的传统佳肴. Mussel crisp delicious, packet sauce tasty, traditional cuisine of coastal Wenzhou.

[方] talk nonsense，nonsense，talk the rubbish all the way ；

[例句] 那完全是扯淡, 别信他! That's sheer nonsense, don't believe him.

[例句] 鸿 渐 忙扯淡完事. Hung - chien quickly spouted some nonsense to end the discussion.

lilac colour，heliotrope，lavender，lilac，mauve ；

[例句] 那么,我就只能穿倒霉的老灰色,穿褐色和淡紫色了. Then I'll have to wear tacky old grays and tans and lilacs. "

[例句] 衣服是淡蓝色的,镶着淡紫色的珠子. It was gas blue with lavender beads.

light，thin，weak，[医] bland，feint ；

[例句] 这是一种味淡的烟. This is a mild tobacco.

[例句] 埃德温娜回过头来吃她的早餐 -- 油味轻淡的煎鸡蛋和英国式烤松饼. Edwina returned her attention to breakfast - lightly scrambled eggs and toasted English muffins.

single ale，kvass，near beer，small beer ；

[例句] 得请丹斯先生喝点淡啤酒. ” Mr Dance must have some ale.'

[例句] 哦, 一小杯啤酒某种淡啤酒就行. Oh, a small beer some kind of lager will do.

maple ；

[例句] 她摸着他那浓密的淡棕色胸毛。 She touched the thick mat of sandy hair on his chest.

[例句] 墙漆成淡棕色. The walls have been done in beige.

[医]thinningz，thin ；

[例句] 水能使酒变淡. The water will dilute the wine.

[例句] 日光的照射使颜色变淡了. The sunlight has bleached the color out.

carnation，pompadour，rosiness ；

[例句] 她淡红色的头发剪得短短的，梳得很整齐。 Her reddish hair was cut short and neatly combed.

[例句] 这条围巾渐渐地变成了淡红色. This scarf shades off into pink.

ecru，hazel ；

[例句] 他的头发是淡褐色的. His hair was light brown.

[例句] 她有一双淡褐色的眼睛. She has hazel eyes.