sheen: [OE] Despite its similarity in form and meaning, sheen has no etymological connection with shine. It was originally an adjective, meaning ‘beautiful, bright’. Like its relatives, German sch?n and Dutch schoon, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skauniz, which was derived from the base *skau- ‘see, look’ (source also of English scavenger and show). It was not used as a noun until the early 17th century (it is first recorded in Shakespeare). => scavenger, scone, show
sheen (n.)
"shining, brightness," 1602 (first attested in "Hamlet" iii.2), noun use of adjective sheene "beautiful, bright," from Old English scene, sciene "beautiful; bright, brilliant," from Proto-Germanic *skauniz "conspicuous" (cognates: Old Frisian skene, Middle Dutch scone, Dutch schoon, Old High German skoni, German sch?n "fair, beautiful;" Gothic skaunja "beautiful"), from PIE root *skeue- "to pay attention, perceive" (see caveat). Meaning "film of oil on water" is from 1970.
As an adjective now only in poetic or archaic use, but in Middle English used after a woman's name, or as a noun, "fair one, beautiful woman."
雙語例句
1. The final stage of waxing left it with a satin sheen.
最后上完蠟后，它看起來猶如緞子般光滑亮澤。
來自柯林斯例句
2. hair with a healthy sheen
閃著健康光澤的頭發
來自《權威詞典》
3. Satin has a sheen.
緞有一種光澤.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. The carpet had a silvery sheen to it.
這地毯有種銀色的光澤。
來自辭典例句
5. Sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed.