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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(lán)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(fā)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(fā)。
We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters...
我們一直在做蛋糕，給海報(bào)上色。
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VERB
(通常指因?qū)擂味?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(diǎn)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(rèn)在這種情況下泰勒先生的膚色和種族出身完全無關(guān)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(xiàn)在，日本99%的家庭都擁有彩色電視機(jī)。
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N-UNCOUNT
生動(dòng);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(diǎn))
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(fù)面形象，影響了大家的看法，掩蓋了這個(gè)國(guó)家的真實(shí)面貌。
The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned must colour the way children approach school.
父母對(duì)學(xué)知識(shí)是否有用的態(tài)度必定會(huì)影響孩子對(duì)待學(xué)業(yè)的態(tài)度。
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N-PLURAL
國(guó)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(guó)旗的顏色——綠、紅、白三色裝飾的。
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N-PLURAL
軍旗;國(guó)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(duì)在一個(gè)特殊的儀式上升起了國(guó)旗。
...the battalion's colours.
營(yíng)旗
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N-PLURAL
(運(yùn)動(dòng)隊(duì)的)隊(duì)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(duì)隊(duì)衣。
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PHRASE
(考試考得)極好地，成績(jī)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(jié)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(huì)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(xù)劇《摩斯警長(zhǎng)》。
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PHRASE
闡明觀點(diǎn);明確表態(tài)
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(duì)這個(gè)主題的看法：作為一名女權(quán)主義者我認(rèn)為這類電影是對(duì)女性的侮辱。
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PHRASE
表明對(duì)…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(jiān)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(huì)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(hù)有色人種的權(quán)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(xiàn)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(xiàn)在時(shí)間一長(zhǎng)，這個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)就露出了真面目，效率低下，差錯(cuò)百出。