color

英 ['kʌlə(r)] 美 ['kʌlɚ]

解释

※ 提供单词"color"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

color 颜色

来自PIE*kel, 隐藏，遮盖，词源同cell, hole.后词义由遮盖引申为颜色，色彩。

color (n.): early 13c., "skin color, complexion," from Old French color "color, complexion, appearance" (Modern French couleur), from Latin color "color of the skin; color in general, hue; appearance," from Old Latin colos, originally "a covering" (akin to celare "to hide, conceal"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell).

For sense evolution, compare Sanskrit varnah "covering, color," related to vrnoti "covers," and also see chroma. Meaning "visible color, color of something" is attested in English from c. 1300. As "color as a property of things," from late 14c. Old English words for "color" were hiw ("hue"), bleo.
color (v.): late 14c.; see color (n.); earliest use is figurative. Related: Colored; coloring.

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1. Nancy liked it well enough, but complained about the color.: 南希还蛮喜欢它，只是有点不满意它的颜色。

2. He said he wanted a color-blind government where everybody's treated the same.: 他说想要一个对所有人一视同仁、没有种族偏见的政府。