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N-COUNT
顏色；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.
例句
'What colour is the car?' — 'Red.'...
“車是什么顏色？”“紅色。”
Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes...
她的絲綢連衣裙是天藍色的，和她眼睛的顏色一樣。
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N-VAR
顏料;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 .
例句
...The Body Shop Herbal Hair Colour...
美體小鋪草本染發劑
It is better to avoid all food colours.
最好不要吃任何食用色素。
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VERB
(用染料、顏料等)給…著色(或染色)
If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour.
例句
Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s...
很多女人在三十五歲左右開始染發。
We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters...
我們一直在做蛋糕，給海報上色。
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VERB
(通常指因尷尬而)臉紅
If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed.
例句
Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
安德魯不禁注意到她有點臉紅了。
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N-COUNT
(不同人種的)膚色
Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.
例句
I don't care what colour she is...
我不在乎她的膚色。
He acknowledged that Mr Taylor's colour and ethnic origins were utterly irrelevant in the circumstances.
他承認在這種情況下泰勒先生的膚色和種族出身完全無關緊要。
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ADJ
(電視、照片或圖片)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.
例句
In Japan 99 per cent of all households now have a colour television set.
現在，日本99%的家庭都擁有彩色電視機。
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N-UNCOUNT
生動;趣味
Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting.
例句
She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth and colour to her novels.
她重新開始了旅行，那是增加自己小說的深度和趣味性所必不可少的。
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VERB
影響(某人的觀點)
If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something.
例句
All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country...
媒體往往描繪的只是愛爾蘭的負面形象，影響了大家的看法，掩蓋了這個國家的真實面貌。
The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned must colour the way children approach school.
父母對學知識是否有用的態度必定會影響孩子對待學業的態度。
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N-PLURAL
國旗的顏色
A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag.
例句
The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red and white.
歌劇院是以匈牙利國旗的顏色——綠、紅、白三色裝飾的。
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N-PLURAL
軍旗;國旗
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 .
例句
Troops raised the country's colors in a special ceremony.
部隊在一個特殊的儀式上升起了國旗。
...the battalion's colours.
營旗
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N-PLURAL
(運動隊的)隊服顏色
A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play.
例句
I was wearing the team's colours.
我穿著該隊隊衣。
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PHRASE
(考試考得)極好地，成績出色地
If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
例句
So far McAllister seemed to have passed all the tests with flying colors.
到目前為止，麥卡利斯特似乎所有的考試都考得非常好。
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PHRASE
(電影或電視節目)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.
例句
Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?...
他會放那部電影嗎？是彩色的嗎？
You can go home afterwards and watch Inspector Morse in colour.
之后你就可以回家，看彩色版的電視連續劇《摩斯警長》。
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PHRASE
闡明觀點;明確表態
If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
例句
I shall nail my colours firmly to the mast on this subject — as a feminist I find movies like this offensive.
我要非常明確地表明自己對這個主題的看法：作為一名女權主義者我認為這類電影是對女性的侮辱。
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PHRASE
表明對…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.
例句
He has nailed his colours firmly to Mr Dobson's mast...
他表示堅決支持多布森先生。
Mr Kennedy nailed his colours to the mast of the single currency.
肯尼迪先生表示支持單一貨幣制。
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PHRASE
看(某人)有沒有足夠的支付能力
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.
例句
He made a mental note never to enter into conversation with a customer until he'd at least seen the colour of his money.
他心里暗暗記住，顧客至少要看上去能付得起錢，他才會去和他們搭話。
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PHRASE
(人種)有色的
People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.
例句
Black communities spoke up to defend the rights of all people of color.
黑人群體大聲疾呼，要求維護有色人種的權利。
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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.
例句
The children are seeing him in his true colours for the first time now...
現在，孩子們第一次看到他的真面目。
Here, the organization has had time to show its true colours, to show its inefficiency and its bungling.
現在時間一長，這個機構就露出了真面目，效率低下，差錯百出。
Noun
1. any material used for its color;
"she used a different color for the trim"2. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
3. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
4. interest and variety and intensity;
"the Puritan Period was lacking in color"5. the timbre of a musical sound;
"the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"6. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect;
"a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"7. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading;
"he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity""he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction""the situation soon took on a different color"8. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
Verb
1. modify or bias;
"His political ideas color his lectures"2. decorate with colors;
"color the walls with paint in warm tones"3. gloss or excuse;
"color a lie"4. affect as in thought or feeling;
"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case""The sadness tinged his life"5. add color to;
"The child colored the drawings""Fall colored the trees""colorize black and white film"6. change color, often in an undesired manner;
"The shirts discolored"Adjective
1. having or capable of producing colors;
"color film""he rented a color television""marvelous color illustrations"