freckle
freckle — noun
1. Small, flat brown dots that appear on a person's skin — usually the face, arms,
Small, flat brown dots that appear on a person's skin — usually the face, arms, or shoulders — and that get darker or stand out more when that person spends time outside in sunny weather.
Trang's light skin was covered in tiny freckles that stood out every summer.
collocation: covered in freckles
The little girl counted the freckles on her grandmother's arms one lazy afternoon.
Ryo noticed a small cluster of faint freckles across his nose after the beach trip.
Dahlia's freckles would fade in winter and return again each spring.
Adina used sunscreen every morning to keep her freckles from getting darker.
用法筆記
Freckles almost always appear in groups, so the plural form is much more common than the singular.
常見錯誤
freckle — verb
1. To cover someone's skin with small brown dots — for example, when strong sunligh
To cover someone's skin with small brown dots — for example, when strong sunlight causes freckles to appear on a person's face or arms.
The bright summer sun freckled Léa's cheeks and forehead within a week.
pattern: [sun] freckled [body part]
Years of outdoor work had freckled Christopher's arms with tiny brown dots.
The hot summer freckled Zuri's shoulders despite her wide-brimmed hat.
Each long mountain hike freckled Ishaan's nose a little more than before.
A childhood spent at the coast freckled Hari's face so much that his friends teased him.
文法句型
[sun/weather/activity] + freckle + [body part]
用法筆記
This transitive sense appears mostly in descriptive or literary writing. In everyday conversation, speakers usually say 'got freckles' or 'developed freckles' instead.
2. For a person's skin to develop small brown spots, especially as a result of bein
For a person's skin to develop small brown spots, especially as a result of being in the sun.
Hamza's pale skin freckled easily whenever he spent time outdoors.
pattern: [skin] freckles easily
After two weeks at the beach camp, Amani's face freckled across the bridge of her nose.
The children's arms freckled during the long summer holiday.
Renata's skin had freckled noticeably since she joined the cross-country running team.
The lifeguard's shoulders freckled after a whole summer by the pool.
- develop spots
a more general phrasal alternative that does not specify the sun-related cause
文法句型
[body part/skin] + freckle (+ adverb)
用法筆記
Often used with adverbs like 'easily' or 'quickly' to describe how readily someone's skin develops freckles. The subject is usually a body part or 'skin'.