详细解释
皤
1、(形声。从白,番声。本义:白色)。
2、同本义。
皤,老人白也。---《说文》
贲如皤如。---《易·贲》。集解:“白素之貌。”
皤皤国老。---《后汉书·樊准传》。注:“白首貌。”
皤蒿：即白蒿
皤皤：白发貌。形容年老
皤翁：白发老人
皤然：白貌。多指须发
皤皤国老：年老的国家重臣;元老。
3、大。
皤其腹。---《左传·庄公二年》
皤腹：大肚子
皤皤：腹大貌
皤罂：大腹小口的盛酒器。
例句
因食盐成就一方富庶的例子很多，但是地域特征与文化传统又使皤滩有其自己的面目。
Salt brought great wealth. Such cases could be seen everywhere. However, Potan had its own special features due to its regional characteristics and culture traditions.
当年的章安港水位很深，双桅的大船在丰水期可以沿椒江而上，直达上游一个叫皤滩的码头。
The then Zhang'an port was deep enough to allow ketch-rigged big ships sailing upward along Jiaojiang River to a dock named Pantan on the upper reach.
皤滩的确是一个很小的古镇，和中国许多古镇村落的命运相似，能够比较完整的保留到现在是一件偶然而不易的事情。
Potan is indeed a very small ancient town, usually with a fate that is shared by many other ancient towns in China. To preserve it as it was until now is a rare and uneasy thing.
回答这样的问题，想要较为全面的叙述有关皤滩古镇的往事，让一个并不被众人所熟知的面目渐渐清晰，显然会把自己逼到处境艰难的旮旯胡同里。
To answer such a question, to give a quite general depiction of Potan ancient town's past events, and to bring into focus what is still not well-known would obviously corner ourselves.
回答这样的问题，想要较为全面的叙述有关皤滩古镇的往事，让一个并不被众人所熟知的面目渐渐清晰，显然会把自己逼到处境艰难的旮旯胡同里。
To answer such a question, to give a quite general depiction of Potan ancient town's past events, and to bring into focus what is still not well-known would obviously corner ourselves.