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colour

/kuhl-er/US // ˈkʌl ər //UK // (ˈkʌlə) //

颜色,色彩,肤色,色泽

Definitions

  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : color.

Examples

  • They were dressed in sober colours for today’s brief event, with Harry wearing a suit and tie.

  • Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits.

  • I designed a pattern for the colour work that would signify everything about these games!

  • The human body comes in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and colours, yet people outside the perceived norm have often been seen as threatening, ridiculous or hateful.

  • You know the cartoon segment that used to be in colour in rancid old newspapers?

  • Soul Survivor, a Christian organization based out of the UK, filmed one of their ‘Colour Chaos’ events with GoPros.

  • Matisse (1869–1954) called it “cutting directly into colour” and the process itself is as fascinating as the results.

  • She was wonderfully beautiful, but her colour was too deep and her lovely eyes were too bright.

  • I knew every volume by its colour and examined them all, passing slowly around the library and whistling to keep up my spirits.

  • The sleeves of his doublet which protruded from his leather casing were of the same colour and material as his trunks.

  • His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.

  • Later on, I believe, a child is wont to have his favourite colour, and to be ready to defend it against the preferences of others.

  • Liking for a single colour is a considerably smaller display of mind than an appreciation of the relation of two colours.

  • Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.