His face blanched as he looked at Sharpe's blood-drenched uniform...他一看到夏普浸滿鮮血的制服，臉色頓時變得煞白。She felt herself blanch at the unpleasant memories.一回想起那些不愉快的事情，她覺得自己的臉刷地就白了。
VERB
退縮；回避
If you say that someone blanches at something, you mean that they find it unpleasant and do not want to be involved with it.
例句
Everything he had said had been a mistake. He blanched at his miscalculations...他所說的一切都是錯的。他回避了自己的判斷錯誤。There are places you can take physically handicapped children where staff don't blanch at the sight of a wheelchair.有些地方你能帶殘疾兒童去，那里的工作人員不會一看到輪椅就退縮。
VERB
焯
If you blanch vegetables, fruit, or nuts, you put them into boiling water for a short time, usually in order to remove their skins, or to prepare them for freezing.
例句
Skin the peaches by blanching them.把桃子焯一下去皮。
英英詞典釋義
Adjective
1. ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion;
"a face turned ashen""the invalid's blanched cheeks""tried to speak with bloodless lips""a face livid with shock""lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley"lips white with terror""a face white with rage"
2. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light;