Word of the Day ： September 17, 2020

limpid

(液体，气体等)清澈的；清澄的；透明的；透光的

adjective LIM-pid

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Definition

1 a ： marked by transparency ： pellucid

用作透明的，清晰的

b ： clear and simple in style

简洁明了的风格

2 ： absolutely serene and untroubled

平静地，安详的

Examples

"She leaned toward him, entreaty in her eyes, and as he looked at her delicate face and into her pure, limpid eyes, as of old he was struck with his own unworthiness." — Jack London, Martin Eden, 1909

她向他俯下身来，眼睛里流露出恳求的神情。当他望着她那娇嫩的面孔，望着她那纯洁清澈的眼睛时，他为自己从前的卑鄙而感到痛心。

"Last summer, the edges of the Greenland ice sheet experienced up to three extra months of melting weather. Limpid blue pools formed on its surface; floods of melt gushed off the edge of the continent…." — Madeleine Stone, National Geographic, 7 July 2020

去年夏天，格陵兰冰原的边缘经历了长达三个多月的融化天气。水面上形成了澈蓝的池塘；融化的洪水从大陆的边缘喷涌而出……

Did You Know?

Since around 1600, limpid has been used in English to describe things that have the soft clearness of pure water. The aquatic connection is not incidental; language scholars believe that limpid probably traces to lympha, a Latin word meaning "water." That same Latin root is also the source of the word lymph, the English name for the pale liquid that helps maintain the body's fluid balance and that removes bacteria from tissues.

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