white 1 S1 W1 / waɪt / 形容词 #

1 colour having the colour of milk, salt, or snow :

a white dress

pure/snow white (= completely white )

snow white hair

2 people

a) belonging to the race of people with pale skin → black :

young white males

b) relating to white people :

a white neighborhood

3 pale looking pale, because of illness, strong emotion etc :

Are you OK? You’re white as a sheet (= extremely pale ) .

white with anger/fear etc

Her voice shook, and her face was white with anger.

4 coffee [通常用于名词前] British English white coffee has milk or cream in it

5 wine white wine is a pale yellow colour → red

6 a white Christmas a Christmas when there is snow

7 whiter than white completely morally good :

He said that he had never claimed to be whiter than white.

— whiteness 名词 [不可数名词]

white 2 S3 W2 noun #

1 colour [不可数名词] the colour of milk, salt, and snow 2 people [可数名词] ( also White ) someone who belongs to the race of people with pale skin → black :
The mayor is very popular among whites. 3 wine [可数和不可数名词] wine that is pale yellow in colour :
a nice bottle of white California has some of the finest whites in the world. 4 eye [ countable + of ] the white part of your eye 5 egg [可数和不可数名词] the part of an egg that surrounds the yolk (= yellow part ) and becomes white when cooked 6 whites [复数形式] a) white clothes, sheets etc, which are separated from dark colours when they are washed b) white clothes that are worn for some sports, such as tennis

white 3 verb #

white something ↔ out phrasal verb to cover something written on paper, especially a mistake, with a special white liquid so that it cannot be seen any more