Wan

(verb.) become pale and sickly.

(adj.) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; 'a wan smile' .

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• She had sunk into one of the golden thrones, and as I turned to her she greeted me with a wan smile. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• And that it was another was enough to make Mr. Thornton's pale grave face grow doubly wan and stern at Dixon's answer. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He was little, lame, and pale; his large eyes shone somewhat languidly in a wan orbit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Why, dey wan't no 'count 't all. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Everything looked wan at that hour. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The age of iron is not yet supreme, For youth still throbs in the old veins of Mother Earth, wan and weary with sorrowful centuries. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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