waxen

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor.
散普麗斯姆姆卻和白蠟一樣白。
Like the mythical Greek boy with the waxen wings, the child at the center of the controversy, 13-year-old Huang Yibo, was soaring.
就像希臘神話中的有著蒼白翅膀的男孩，在這場(chǎng)辯論風(fēng)暴中心的男孩， 13嵗的黃藝博現(xiàn)在備受矚目。
For we will destroy this place， because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD； and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
我們要燬滅這地方。因爲(wèi)城內(nèi)罪惡的聲音在耶和華麪前甚大，耶和華差我們來，要燬滅這地方。

Nations have that right, and far worse men—Lenin, for example, still there in his waxen flesh—have been honoured in this way.
ECONOMIST: Bad for Latin America, then and now