Stain

(noun.) a soiled or discolored appearance; 'the wine left a dark stain'.

(noun.) (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible.

(verb.) color for microscopic study; 'The laboratory worker dyed the specimen'.

(verb.) color with a liquid dye or tint; 'Stain this table a beautiful walnut color'; 'people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages'.

(verb.) produce or leave stains; 'Red wine stains the table cloth'.

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• Gentlemen all, observe the dark stain upon this gentleman's hat, no wider than a shilling, but thicker than a half-crown. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The worms have eaten the cloth a good deal--there's the stain which Sir Pitt--ha! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• After leaving Miss Rachel's room, I stopped a moment on one of the landings, by myself, to see if I had got the paint-stain by any chance on MY gown. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Venn flushed through his stain. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The other half, however, attracted my attention at once by its singular freedom from stain or impurity of any kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• With a darkening face my friend strode along the margin, eagerly observant of every muddy stain upon the mossy surface. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• This is a very deep and natural stain. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You observed that her right glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• What good man will ever come again under my roof if I let my floor be stained with a good man's blood! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• As he held out his hand to Holmes, I perceived that it was also stained with yellow nicotine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I cannot call to mind where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained glass window in a church. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I shuddered at the thought that for anything I knew, his hand might be stained with blood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I can hold them crumpled up in my hand, so no one will know how stained they are. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolourations, but undoubtedly fresh. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The blood-stains in the room and also on the stick are very slight. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I presume, as I see blood-stains upon it, that it is the one which was found in the dead man's grasp. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, mud-stains, blood-stains! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Paint stains are best removed by the application of gasoline followed by soap and water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• That's clear enough, for the stains lie above each other--if you lay it over this way. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• One of the most important and lucrative industrial processes of the world to-day is that of staining and dyeing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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