colour

• vt. 把…涂颜色，粉饰；歪曲；使脸红
• vi. 变色
• n. 颜色；风格；气色，面色；外貌

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

colour

colour: [13] The Old English words for ‘colour’ were hīw ‘hue’ and blēo, but from the 13th century onwards they were gradually replaced by Old French colour. This came from Latin color, which appears to have come ultimately from an Indo-European base *kel- ‘hide’ (source also of apocalypse, cell, clandestine, conceal, and occult).

This suggests that its original underlying meaning was ‘outward appearance, hiding what is inside’, a supposition supported by the long history of such senses of English colour as ‘outward (deceptive) appearance’ and ‘(specious) plausibility’ (as in ‘lend colour to a notion’).
=> apocalypse, cell, conceal, hell, occult

colour

chiefly British English spelling of color (q.v.); for ending see -or. Related: Coloured; colouring; colourful; colours.

colour, dye, paint, stain

这些动词均有"着色，染"之意。

colour： 普通用词，含义笼统。可指人工的着色，也可指天然的着色。

dye： 多指使用染料改变物体的颜色，如染织品或头发等。

paint： 指为装饰等目的而把油漆或涂料等物涂于物体表面。

stain： 多指用化学或其它方法使物体着色。

To distinguish them from the colour of the plane.

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As for the taxi drivers, most are delighted to be behind the wheel of new cars,although there have been a few complaints about switching from black and white to a plain white colour.

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While the team can't be sure their results are due solely to Obama, they also showed that those with the lowest bias were likely to subconsciously associate black skin colour with political words such as "government" or "president".

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From the moment a child is born, they interact with the world, looking at colours, feeding textures; constructing mental and physical images of what they see and experience.

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In a world that warms up by 3℃, it found that multiple changes to the colour of the oceans would occur.

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Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton.

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The cause of the changes in ocean colour.

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Whatever colour changes the ocean experiences in the coming decades will probably be too gradual and unnoticeable, but they could mean significant changes.

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Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives.

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When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.

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What's your favourite colour?

你最喜欢的颜色是什么？

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bright/dark/light colours

鲜艳的 / 深 / 浅颜色

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available in 12 different colours

有12种不同的颜色可供挑选

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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...the battalion's colours.

营旗

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I was wearing the team's colours.

我穿着该队队衣。

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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。

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Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?...

他会放那部电影吗？是彩色的吗？

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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》。

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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。

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He has nailed his colours firmly to Mr Dobson's mast...

他表示坚决支持多布森先生。

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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。

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'What colour is the car?' — 'Red.'...

“车是什么颜色？”“红色。”

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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。

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...The Body Shop Herbal Hair Colour...

美体小铺草本染发剂

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It is better to avoid all food colours.

最好不要吃任何食用色素。

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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。

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We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters...

我们一直在做蛋糕，给海报上色。

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Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.

安德鲁不禁注意到她有点脸红了。

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I don't care what colour she is...

我不在乎她的肤色。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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