mottled

Word family

AVCFcovered with spots or coloured areas 杂色的；斑驳的

mottled with

The book’s pages were mottled with brown stains.

书页上布满了褐色的污渍。

His red, mottled face showed the effect of too much whisky.

他那张红红的、满是斑点的脸表明，他威士忌喝得太多了。

Examples from the Corpus

mottled• Control: Misting over flowers Blotchy ripening: Fruits mottled bright red and yellow and flesh stays hard.• He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle.• Then an immature gannet came into view away out at sea, a huge bird, still in mottled dark brown plumage.• a mottled gray-and-white whale• The mottled lock on the front still held, but its dusty cardboard strap had fractured with age.• A tiny canary-yellow waterlily with heavily mottled olive-green leaves.• Above the scoop neckline of her peacock blue dress, an ill-defined rash of mottled pink broke out, then faded.• He was also the first to prepare blue mottled soap.• Its coat was light red or dun mottled with white.

Origin mottled

(1600-1700) mottle “to mark with spots” ((17-21 centuries)), probably from motley

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 20171 COCA: 15312

mottled