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- a shade or variety of colour色彩; 色调:
the sky was taking on an apricot tint.
天空呈现出一抹杏黄色。
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- Printing an area of faint even colour printed as a half-tone, used for highlighting overprinted text【印刷】底色。
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- a set of parallel engraved lines to give uniform shading(用平行线表现阴影的)线晕。
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- a trace of something一丝:
a tint of glamour.
一丝魅力。
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- an artificial dye for colouring the hair染发剂。
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- an application of such a substance染发:
peering into the mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last tint.
从镜子里看看她上次染发后是否有白头发显露出来。
with obj.(一般作be tinted)
1- colour (something) slightly; tinge给…轻微着色(或染色); 使略带色彩(或色调):
her skin was tinted with delicate colour
她肤色柔和
as adj. tinted a black car with tinted windows.一辆淡色车窗玻璃的黑轿车。
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- dye (someone's hair) with a tint染(发)。
派生词
tinter
noun词源
early 18th cent.: alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian tinta) of obsolete tinct 'to colour, tint', from Latin tinctus 'dyeing', from tingere 'to dye or colour'.