in AM, use 美国英语用 color
1 N-COUNT 颜色;色彩 The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours. 颜色;色彩
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'What colour is the car?' — 'Red.'.
“车是什么颜色?”“红色。”
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Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
她的丝绸连衣裙是天蓝色的,和她眼睛的颜色一样。
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Judi's favourite colour is pink.
朱迪最喜欢的颜色是粉红色。
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The badges come in twenty different colours and shapes.
这种徽章有20种不同的颜色和形状。
SYN hue, tone, shade, tint
2 N-VAR 颜料;染料 A colour is a substance you use to give something a particular colour. Dyes and make-up are sometimes referred to as colours . 颜料;染料
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...The Body Shop Herbal Hair Colour.
美体小铺草本染发剂
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It is better to avoid all food colours.
最好不要吃任何食用色素。
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...the latest lip and eye colours.
最新的唇彩和眼影
SYN paint, stain, dye, tint
3 VERB (用染料、颜料等)给…着色(或染色) If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour. (用染料、颜料等)给…着色(或染色)
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Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s. [VERB noun]
很多女人在三十五岁左右开始染发。
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We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters. [VERB noun]
我们一直在做蛋糕,给海报上色。
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The petals can be cooked with rice to colour it yellow. [V n colour]
可以把这些花瓣跟米饭一起煮,使米饭变成黄色。
SYN tint, stain, dye
4 VERB (通常指因尴尬而)脸红 If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed. (通常指因尴尬而)脸红
SYN blush, flush, crimson, redden
5 N-COUNT [usually singular, oft poss NOUN] (不同人种的)肤色 Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race. (不同人种的)肤色 [politeness]
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I don't care what colour she is.
我不在乎她的肤色。
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He acknowledged that Mr Taylor's colour and ethnic origins were utterly irrelevant in the circumstances.
他承认在这种情况下泰勒先生的肤色和种族出身完全无关紧要。
6 ADJ [usually ADJ n] (电视、照片或图片)彩色的 A colour television, photograph, or picture is one that shows things in all their colours, and not just in black, white, and grey. (电视、照片或图片)彩色的
7 N-UNCOUNT 生动;趣味 Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting. 生动;趣味
9 VERB 影响(某人的观点) If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something. 影响(某人的观点)
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All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country. [VERB noun]
媒体往往描绘的只是爱尔兰的负面形象,影响了大家的看法,掩盖了这个国家的真实面貌。
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The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned must colour the way children approach school. [VERB noun]
父母对学知识是否有用的态度必定会影响孩子对待学业的态度。
SYN influence, affect, prejudice, distort
10 N-PLURAL 国旗的颜色 A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag. 国旗的颜色
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The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red and white.
歌剧院是以匈牙利国旗的颜色—绿、红、白三色装饰的。
11 N-PLURAL 军旗;国旗 People sometimes refer to the flag of a particular part of an army, navy, or air force, or the flag of a particular country as its colours . 军旗;国旗
12 N-PLURAL (运动队的)队服颜色 A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play. (运动队的)队服颜色
13 See also: coloured colouring
14 PHRASE (考试考得)极好地,成绩出色地 If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test. (考试考得)极好地,成绩出色地
15 PHRASE (电影或电视节目)彩色的 If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey. (电影或电视节目)彩色的
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Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?.
他会放那部电影吗?是彩色的吗?
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You can go home afterwards and watch Inspector Morse in colour.
之后你就可以回家,看彩色版的电视连续剧《摩斯警长》。
16 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 阐明观点;明确表态 If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something. 阐明观点;明确表态
17 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 表明对…的支持 If you nail your colours to someone's mast, or if you nail your colours to a particular mast, you show that you support a particular person or issue. 表明对…的支持 [journalism]
18 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 看(某人)有没有足够的支付能力 If you say that you want to see the colour of someone's money, you mean that you are not prepared to sell them something or do something for them until they have proved that they have the money to pay for it. 看(某人)有没有足够的支付能力
19 PHRASE (人种)有色的 People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins. (人种)有色的 [politeness]
20 PHRASE (看到)…的真面目;露出…的真面目 If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like. (看到)…的真面目;露出…的真面目
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The children are seeing him in his true colours for the first time now.
现在,孩子们第一次看到他的真面目。
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Here, the organization has had time to show its true colours, to show its inefficiency and its bungling.
现在时间一长,这个机构就露出了真面目,效率低下,差错百出。
Word Partnership | Use colour with: |
ADJ. | bright colour, favourite colour 1 |
N. | colour blind, eye/hair colour 1 skin colour 5 colour film/photograph, colour television 6 |
PREP. | in colour 15 |
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