colour

colour

noun

1. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

Synonym: color

2. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

e.g. 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

Synonym: semblanceglosscolor

3. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

e.g. a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light

Synonym: colorcoloringcolouring

4. the timbre of a musical sound

e.g. the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music

Synonym: colorcolorationcolouration

5. interest and variety and intensity

e.g. the Puritan Period was lacking in color
the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness

Synonym: colorvividness

6. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction

e.g. each flavor of quarks comes in three colors

Synonym: color

7. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

Synonym: colorpeople of colorpeople of colour

8. any material used for its color

e.g. she used a different color for the trim

Synonym: coloring materialcolouring materialcolor

verb

1. change color, often in an undesired manner

e.g. The shirts discolored

Synonym: discolordiscolourcolor

2. add color to

e.g. The child colored the drawings
Fall colored the trees
colorize black and white film

Synonym: colorcolorizecolorisecolourisecolourizecolor incolour in

3. affect as in thought or feeling

e.g. My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
The sadness tinged his life

Synonym: tingecolordistort

4. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for

e.g. color a lie

Synonym: colorgloss

5. decorate with colors

e.g. color the walls with paint in warm tones

Synonym: coloremblazon

6. modify or bias

e.g. His political ideas color his lectures

Synonym: color

colour的反义词

adj

1. having or capable of producing colors

e.g. color film
he rented a color television
marvelous color illustrations

Synonym: color

1. 颜色；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.

e.g. 'What colour is the car?' — 'Red.'...
“车是什么颜色？”“红色。”
e.g. Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes...
她的丝绸连衣裙是天蓝色的，和她眼睛的颜色一样。

2. 颜料;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 .

e.g. ...The Body Shop Herbal Hair Colour...
美体小铺草本染发剂
e.g. It is better to avoid all food colours.
最好不要吃任何食用色素。

3. (用染料、颜料等)给…着色(或染色)
If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour.

e.g. Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s...
很多女人在三十五岁左右开始染发。
e.g. We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters...
我们一直在做蛋糕，给海报上色。

4. (通常指因尴尬而)脸红
If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed.

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e.g. Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
安德鲁不禁注意到她有点脸红了。

5. (不同人种的)肤色
Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.

e.g. I don't care what colour she is...
我不在乎她的肤色。
e.g. He acknowledged that Mr Taylor's colour and ethnic origins were utterly irrelevant in the circumstances.
他承认在这种情况下泰勒先生的肤色和种族出身完全无关紧要。

6. (电视、照片或图片)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.

e.g. In Japan 99 per cent of all households now have a colour television set.
现在，日本99%的家庭都拥有彩色电视机。

7. 生动;趣味
Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting.

e.g. She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth and colour to her novels.
她重新开始了旅行，那是增加自己小说的深度和趣味性所必不可少的。

8. 影响(某人的观点)
If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something.

e.g. All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country...
媒体往往描绘的只是爱尔兰的负面形象，影响了大家的看法，掩盖了这个国家的真实面貌。
e.g. The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned must colour the way children approach school.
父母对学知识是否有用的态度必定会影响孩子对待学业的态度。

9. 国旗的颜色
A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag.

e.g. The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red and white.
歌剧院是以匈牙利国旗的颜色——绿、红、白三色装饰的。

10. 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 .

e.g. Troops raised the country's colors in a special ceremony.
部队在一个特殊的仪式上升起了国旗。
e.g. ...the battalion's colours.
营旗

11. (运动队的)队服颜色
A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play.

e.g. I was wearing the team's colours.
我穿着该队队衣。

12. see also: coloured;colouring

13. (考试考得)极好地，成绩出色地
If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.

colour的翻译

e.g. So far McAllister seemed to have passed all the tests with flying colors.
到目前为止，麦卡利斯特似乎所有的考试都考得非常好。

14. (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.

e.g. Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?...
他会放那部电影吗？是彩色的吗？
e.g. You can go home afterwards and watch Inspector Morse in colour.
之后你就可以回家，看彩色版的电视连续剧《摩斯警长》。

15. 阐明观点;明确表态
If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.

colour什么意思

e.g. I shall nail my colours firmly to the mast on this subject — as a feminist I find movies like this offensive.
我要非常明确地表明自己对这个主题的看法：作为一名女权主义者我认为这类电影是对女性的侮辱。

16. 表明对…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.

colour在线翻译

e.g. He has nailed his colours firmly to Mr Dobson's mast...
他表示坚决支持多布森先生。
e.g. Mr Kennedy nailed his colours to the mast of the single currency.
肯尼迪先生表示支持单一货币制。

17. 看(某人)有没有足够的支付能力
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.

e.g. He made a mental note never to enter into conversation with a customer until he'd at least seen the colour of his money.
他心里暗暗记住，顾客至少要看上去能付得起钱，他才会去和他们搭话。

18. (人种)有色的
People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.

colour

e.g. Black communities spoke up to defend the rights of all people of color.
黑人群体大声疾呼，要求维护有色人种的权利。

19. (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.

e.g. The children are seeing him in his true colours for the first time now...
现在，孩子们第一次看到他的真面目。
e.g. Here, the organization has had time to show its true colours, to show its inefficiency and its bungling.
现在时间一长，这个机构就露出了真面目，效率低下，差错百出。

相关词组：colour in

1. 彩色：它有两档:自动(AUTO)档,可自动决定播放或录取信号为彩色或黑白;彩色(COLOUR)档,用于视频信号很弱、彩色不稳定的情况,置接话筒插孔,有的机型内还采用戽链器件(BBD)组成的延时混响电路,能使盖,已照部分也不会曝光损失.

2. 克拉：现在的上海话,既有无锡、苏州一带的吴侬软语的基因,也有宁波绍兴一带的又硬又快的方言的遗传,也未必没有上海人不屑的苏北话因素,甚至还夹杂着一些洋泾浜英语词汇,比如小开(kite),大班(banker),克拉(colour),台型(dashing),