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colour

英 [ˈkʌlə]

[ADJ, NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

ADJ. 形容词

1. 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.
双语例句
例：
In Japan 99 per cent of all households now have a colour television set.
日本99％的家庭如今都有彩电。

NOUN. 名词

colours
1. [C 可数名词] 颜色
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.
双语例句
例：
'What colour is the car?'—'Red.'
“那辆车是什么颜色？” “红色。”
例：
Judi's favourite colour is pink.
朱迪最喜欢的颜色是粉红色。
2. [C 可数名词] 肤色（常指人种）
Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.
双语例句
例：
I don't care what colour she is.
我不在乎她是什么人种。
3. [C, U 有变体名词] 着色剂
A colour is a substance you use to give something a particular colour. Dyes and makeup are sometimes referred to as colours.
双语例句
例：
It is better to avoid all food colours.
最好避开所有的食品着色剂。
例：
Her nail colour was coordinated with her lipstick.
她指甲上涂的颜色与她的口红相配。
4. [U 不可数名词] 趣味
Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting.
双语例句
例：
She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth and colour to her novels.
她重新开始旅行以给她的小说增加深度和趣味。
5. [PL 复数] 国旗色
A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag.
双语例句
例：
The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red, and white.
歌剧院饰以匈牙利的国旗色：绿、红、白。
6. [PL 复数] 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.
双语例句
例：
Troops raised the country's colours in a special ceremony.
军队在一次特殊仪式上升了国旗。
7. [PL 复数] 队服颜色
A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play.
双语例句
例：
I was wearing the team's colours.
我穿的衣服的颜色与该队队服的颜色相同。

PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

colour in
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 给…着色
If you colour in a drawing, you give it different colours using crayons or paints.
双语例句
例：
Someone had coloured in all the black and white pictures.
有人把所有的黑白图片绘成了彩色。

PHRASE. 习语

in colour
1. （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.
双语例句
例：
Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?
他要去放电影吗？是彩色的吗？
of colour
1. 有色的
People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.
双语例句
例：
Black communities spoke up to defend the rights of all people of colour.
黑人社团为捍卫所有有色人种的权利大声疾呼。

VERB. 动词

colours , colouring , coloured
1. [T 及物动词] 给…着色
If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour.
双语例句
例：
Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s.
许多妇女在三十五六岁时开始染发。
例：
We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters.
我们一直在做蛋糕和给海报上色。
2. [I 不及物动词] 脸红
If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed.
近义词
blush
双语例句
例：
Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
安德鲁不禁注意到她微微有些脸红。
3. [T 及物动词] 影响
If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something.
近义词
affect
双语例句
例：
All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country.
通常只有爱尔兰的负面形象被加以描绘，这影响了人们的看法并掩盖了这个国家的实质。