Colour
[kʌlә]
解釋/意思:
(n.) See Color.
巴塞洛缪校對
解釋/意思:
n. a property of light which causes bodies to have different appearances to the eye: the hue or appearance which bodies present to the eye: appearance of blood in the face: appearance: pretext: tint: paint: false show: kind: (pl.) a flag ensign or standard: paints.—v.t. to put colour on: to stain: to paint: to set in a fair light: to exaggerate: to misrepresent.—v.i. to show colour: to blush.—adjs. Colorif′ic containing or producing colours; Col′ourable having a fair appearance: designed to conceal.—adv. Col′ourably.—n. Colourā′tion.—adj. Col′our-blind unable to distinguish between colours.—n. Col′our-blind′ness.—adjs. Col′oured having colour: (Spens.) having a specious appearance deceitful: of the complexion other than white.—ns. Col′ouring any substance used to give colour: manner of applying colours: specious appearance; Col′ourist one who colours or paints: one who excels in colouring.—adj. Col′ourless without colour: transparent: neutral.—ns. Col′ourman one who prepares and sells colours; Col′our-ser′geant the sergeant who guards the colours of a regiment.—adj. Col′oury having much colour.—Colour a pipe to cause a tobacco-pipe esp. a meerschaum to take on a brown or black colour by smoking.—A person of colour a person of negro blood.—Change colour to turn pale: to blush; Come off with flying colours to do something with great é–lat; Come out in one's true colours to appear in one's real character; Desert one's colours to abandon one's post or duty; Fast colour a colour which does not fade when washed; Fight under false colours to put forward a false pretence as a cover for one's actions; Give colour to give plausibility: Hang out false colours to put up another's flag to pretend to belong to another party than one really does; High colour pronounced redness of complexion; Lose colour to lose one's good looks; Nail one's colours to the mast to commit one's self to some party or plan of action; Off colour faded: past one's best; Paint in bright colours to embellish: to exaggerate; Primary colours the three colours red green and violet from which the others called Secondary colours can be obtained; Show one's colours to show what are one's inclinations opinions or character; Stick to one's colours to adhere to one's party or opinions; Under colour of under the pretext of; Without colour without disguise: colourless: without individuality.
校對:威拉德
例句/造句/用法:
- Her colour burned deeper, but she held his gaze. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then her colour came up, a heavy rage came over her like a cloud. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns, said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was a clay pipe, and its colour was reddish. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- What colour, and what texture! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I'm as dry as a kex with biding up here in the wind, and I haven't seen the colour of drink since nammet-time today. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The line between the two colours preserved no sort of regularity. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She's that earnest, says Mr. Bagnet, and true to her colours--that, touch us with a finger--and she turns out--and stands to her arms. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I feel how vivid an impression I must have produced to have been painted in such strong, such rich, such massive colours as these. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The long-sought-for problem of photographing in colours has in a measure been solved. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Immediately he passed an order to one of his officers, and presently the colours of the Prince of Helium broke from every point of the flagship. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- There is no denying that she was as pretty as they, and that she and the colours went very prettily together. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Miss Bart coloured slowly. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She reproached herself, coloured, and looked fearfully towards her father and mother. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He had a broad straw hat on, with a violet-coloured ribbon round it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It presently dawned upon Mr. Briggs as a richly coloured and creditable fact he had hitherto not observed, that the sun never set on his dominions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You doubt me, cried Jane, slightly colouring; indeed, you have no reason. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- You are too kind, said Fanny, colouring at such praise; how shall I ever thank you as I ought, for thinking so well of me. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I have, returned Elinor, colouring likewise, and hardening her heart anew against any compassion for him, I have heard it all. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I do indeed, replied Elizabeth, colouring. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Colouring a little under this compliment, Bella returned, 'I hope sir, you don't think me vain? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Our misery took its majestic shape and colouring from the vast ruin, that accompanied and made one with it. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Nothing particular, sir,' replied Mr. Giles, colouring up to the eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
編輯:威拉