hue
noun/hjuː/
/hjuː/
Idioms - (literary or specialist) a colour; a particular shade of a colour
颜色；色调；色相 - His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。 - Her paintings capture the subtle hues of the countryside in autumn.
她的油画捕捉住了秋天乡村的微妙色调。
Synonyms colourcolourshade ▪ hue ▪ tint ▪ tingeThese words all describe the appearance of things, resulting from the way in which they reflect light.colour the appearance that things have, resulting from the way in which they reflect light. Red, green and blue are colours: What’s your favourite colour?bright/dark/light coloursshade a particular form of a colour, especially when describing how light or dark it is. Sky blue is a shade of blue: Her eyes were a delicate shade of green.hue (literary or technical) a colour or a particular shade of a colour: His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue.tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface: leaves with red and gold autumn tintstinge a small amount of a colour: There was a pink tinge to the sky. tint or tinge?You can say: a reddish tint/tinge or: a tinge of red but not: a tint of red. Tint is often used in the plural, but tinge is almost always singular.Patterns- a warm/rich colour/shade/hue/tint
- a bright/vivid/vibrant/dark/deep colour/shade/hue
- a pale/pastel/soft/subtle/delicate colour/shade/hue
- a light/strong/neutral/natural colour/shade
- His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
- (formal) a type of belief or opinion
信仰；观点 - supporters of every political hue
各种政治信仰的拥护者
- supporters of every political hue
Word OriginOld English hīw, hēow (also ‘form, appearance’, obsolete except in Scots), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish hy ‘skin, complexion’. The sense ‘colour, shade’ dates from the mid 19th cent.
Idioms
hue and cry
- strong public protest about something
公众的强烈抗议 - Further cuts in welfare have raised a hue and cry among the American public.
福利的进一步削减在美国公众中引起了轩然大波。
- Further cuts in welfare have raised a hue and cry among the American public.