Blanch

(verb.) cook (vegetables) briefly; 'Parboil the beans before freezing them'.

录入:凯思琳

• But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men to blanch in horror. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I like the summer day, whose sun makes fruit blush and corn blanch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Blanch the bitter almonds and bruise them in a Wedgwood mortar, adding thereto the glycerine and using the pestle vigorously; a smooth paste is thus obtained. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• His lip might quiver, and his cheek might blanch, but no expression of fear or concern escaped the lips of that immortal man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She drifted forward as if scarcely conscious, her long blanched face lifted up, not to see the world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Stay,' said he, his eye catching on Margaret's face, blanched with watching in a sick room, 'I'm not sure whether I can go; I've a long round to take. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Finally the pin was straightened and blanched or whitened. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Here was the secret of her blanched face, her shaken nerves, her peals of hysterical laughter on the next morning. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Justinian gave a cry of alarm, and his face blanched white under its bronze. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Blanched face, sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, beard of three days' growth, wasted flesh, short thick breath; it was the very ghost of Sikes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The blanching process did not cease in her, and her lips now became as white as her face. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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