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brown

英 [braʊn] 美[braʊn]

adj. 棕色的，褐色的；太阳晒黑的
vi. 变成褐色
n. 褐色，棕色
vt. 使变成褐色
n. (Brown)人名；(英、意、芬、捷、德、法、西、葡)布朗

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复数: browns;第三人称单数: browns;过去式: browned;现在分词: browning;比较级: browner;最高级: brownest;

中文词源

brown 棕褐色的

来自PIE *bher, 照耀，发光。词源同bear, 熊。其明亮义见burnish, 擦亮的。

英英释意

1. an orange of low brightness and saturation

英文词源

brown: brown: [OE] In Old English, brown meant, rather vaguely, ‘dark’; it does not seem to have become a definite colour word until the 13th century. It comes from West and North Germanic *brūnaz, which probably goes back ultimately to the same Indo-European source (*bheros) as bear, etymologically the ‘brown [that is, dark] animal’. An additional meaning of brown in Old and Middle English, shared also by related words such as Old High German brūn, was ‘shining, glistening’, particularly as applied to weapons (it survives in fossilized form in the old ballad Cospatrick, recorded in 1802: ‘my bonny brown sword’); Old French took it over when it borrowed brun from Germanic, and it is the basis of the verb burnir ‘polish’, from which English gets burnish [14].

Another contribution made by French brun to English is the feminine diminutive form brunette [17]. An earlier Old French variant burnete had previously been borrowed by English in the 12th century as burnet, and since the 14th century has been applied to a genus of plants of the rose family. The term burnet moth is first recorded in 1842.
=> bear, brunette, burnish
brown (adj.): Old English brun "dark, dusky," developing a definite color sense only 13c., from Proto-Germanic *brunaz (cognates: Old Norse brunn, Danish brun, Old Frisian and Old High German brun, Dutch bruin, German braun), from PIE *bher- (3) "shining, brown" (cognates: Lithuanian beras "brown"), related to *bheros "dark animal" (compare beaver, bear (n.), and Greek phrynos "toad," literally "the brown animal").

The Old English word also had a sense of "brightness, shining," preserved only in burnish. The Germanic word was adopted into Romanic (Middle Latin brunus, Italian and Spanish bruno, French brun). Brown Bess, slang name for old British Army flintlock musket, first recorded 1785.
brown (n.): "brown color," c. 1600, from brown (adj.).
brown (v.): c. 1300, "to become brown," from brown (adj.). From 1560s as "to make brown." Related: Browned; browning.

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Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a brown patch on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

Brown? You know, Ben’s given up making those terrible faces he used to make.

Its leaves are purple and brown.

Universities like Cornell and Brown have jumped on board.

Would you like to see those pants in brown and navy blue?

Something to match her brown pants

My notes may or may not be useful, but the point is that by writing down what Mr.Brown says, I can follow his line of thinking more easily.

The brown animal was spotted stuck on a narrow window edge of the office tower.

Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a "brown patch" on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.

"The thing you are searching for is reputation," says titus Brown, a genomics (基因组学) researcher at the University of California,Davis.

Researchers from Brown University found that a network in the left hemisphere of the brain "remained more active" than the network in the right side of the brain.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie 环保主义者, but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Brown won't be able to see you today.

Brown would like to see their daughter settled down, get married, and have kids.

If you like, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice on the bananas will prevent them turning brown.

Mary Carskadon, a sleep researcher at brown university medical school.

She'd look at me with those sad brown eyes of hers, beam her need, and then wait, trusting I would understand — which, strangely, I almost always did.

The youngsters' feathers are brown in color.

Those brown eyes were very familiar.

Now think of your laptop, thinner than a brown-paper envelope, or your cellphone in the palm of your hand.

In signing the measure, California Governor Jerry Brown admitted that the law, which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex, is probably unconstitutional.

Ruth simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000: a year later she became president of Brown University.

词组搭配

brown off &I{【多用于英国】}

To make or become angry or irritated.

使沮丧，惹恼：使呈现或变得愤怒或恼怒

(as) brown as a berry

(of a person) very suntanned

（人）（被太阳晒得）黝黑的

in a brown study

brown someone off

[usu. as adj. browned off]make someone feel irritated or depressed

使发怒；使沮丧

they are getting browned off with the overtime.
他们正为加班而沮丧呢。

实用场景例句

brown eyes: 褐色的眼睛

brown bread: 黑面包

dark brown shoe polish: 深棕色鞋油

a package wrapped in brown paper: 用牛皮纸包扎的包裹

(British English)I don't go brown very easily.: 我不容易晒黑。

After the summer in Spain, the children were brown as berries .: 在西班牙度过了一个夏天之后，孩子们晒得黝黑。

leaves of various shades of brown: 深浅不一的棕色叶子

Brown doesn't (= brown clothes do not) suit you.: 你不适合穿棕色衣服。

Heat the butter until it browns.: 把黄油加热，使之呈棕色。

The grass was browning in patches.: 草地一片片地变成褐色。

Brown the onions before adding the meat.: 把洋葱炒成褐色，然后放进肉。

By now the passengers were getting browned off with the delay.: 此时乘客们对延误已开始感到不满。

...spicy tomato sauce served over a bed of brown rice.: 浇在一层糙米上的辣味番茄酱

Cook for ten minutes until the sugar browns...: 熬煮10分钟，直到糖变成褐色。

He browned the chicken in a frying pan.: 他用煎锅把鸡肉煎成焦黄色。

...brown bread.: 黑面包

...a slim brown man with a speckled turban.: 一个戴着花头巾、身材瘦削、棕色皮肤的男子

There were many gorgeous females busy browning themselves.: 有许多漂亮的女性忙着晒黑自己。

Her skin was of the fortunate kind that could brown in the sun without burning...: 她的皮肤属于那种很幸运的类型，在阳光下无需长时间晒着就能变黑。

I don't want to be really really brown, just have a nice light golden colour.: 我不想晒得黝黑，只想晒成一种漂亮的淡金色。

The stairs are decorated in golds and earthy browns.: 楼梯油漆成金色和土褐色。

...her deep brown eyes...: 她深褐色的眼睛

Arkansas has seen a 70 % decline in its numbers since 1967.: 自1967年以来,这种鸟儿的数量在阿肯萨州已经减少了70%.

Mr. Brown has held 500 shares in the shipping company.: 布朗先生持有该家航运公司的500份股份.

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brown off &I{【多用于英国】}

(as) brown as a berry

in a brown study

brown someone off

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