allowing light to pass through but not completely clear 半透明的 The sky was a pale translucent blue. 天空隐约呈淡蓝色。 His skin was translucent with age. 他因年老肤色有些暗淡。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTranslucent is used with these nouns:- skin
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the Latin sense): from Latin translucent- ‘shining through’, from the verb translucere, from trans- ‘through’ + lucere ‘to shine’.