maroon

• n. 栗色；逃亡黑人奴隶；孤立的人
• v. 使孤立；放逐到无人岛上
• adj. 栗色的

来自法语couleur marron,栗子色，couleur,颜色，词源同color,marron,栗子，栗色，可能来自希腊语maraon,甜栗，产于南欧。

来自法语marron,来自西班牙语cimmaron的拼写讹误，野的，未驯服的，来自古西班牙语cimarra,丛林，来自PIE*keue,鼓起，膨胀，词源同encumber,cumulative.最早用于指中南美洲西班牙殖民地逃亡到丛林的黑奴，后来用于航海术语，把犯了错误的水手扔到一座孤岛上自生自灭，并留下一颗子弹供其自杀。

1. a person who is stranded (as on an island);

"when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"

2. a dark purplish red to dark brownish red

3. an exploding firework used as a warning signal

maroon

maroon: English has two distinct and completely unrelated words maroon. The one denoting ‘brownish red’ and ‘firework’ [16] has had a chequered semantic history, as its present-day diversity of meanings suggests. It comes ultimately from medieval Greek máraon ‘sweet chestnut’, and reached English via Italian marrone and French marron (as in marrons glacés).

It was originally used for ‘chestnut’ in English too, but that sense died out in the early 18th century, leaving behind the colour term (an allusion to the reddish brown of the chestnut’s inner shell) and ‘firework, exploding projectile’ (perhaps a reference to the shape of such devices). Maroon ‘abandon’ [17] comes from the noun maroon. This originally meant ‘runaway slave’, and comes via French from American Spanish cimarron.

The most widely accepted derivation of this is that it was based on Spanish cima ‘summit’, a descendant of Latin cyma ‘sprout’, and that it thus denotes etymologically ‘one who lives on the mountain tops’.

maroon (n.)

"very dark reddish-brown color," 1791, from French couleur marron, the color of a marron "chestnut," the large sweet chestnut of southern Europe (maroon in that sense was used in English from 1590s), from dialect of Lyons, ultimately from a word in a pre-Roman language, perhaps Ligurian; or from Greek maraon "sweet chestnut."

maroon (v.)

"put ashore on a desolate island or coast," 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maron (n.) "fugitive black slave in the jungles of W.Indies and Dutch Guyana" (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron "wild, untamed," from Old Spanish cimarra "thicket," probably from cima "summit, top" (from Latin cyma "sprout"), with a notion of living wild in the mountains. Related: Marooned.

‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

《蝇王》是一本关于一群被困在荒岛上的英国男学童的小说。

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...maroon velvet curtains.

绛紫色的天鹅绒窗帘

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Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.

埃文河决堤的时候，有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。

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...after years of being marooned on a desert island.

在荒岛上被困数年之后

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Olive green, silver gray, purple and maroon.

橄榄绿 、 银灰 、 紫、暗红色.

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This pillow is maroon. It's a dark red.

这是一种接近紫色的暗红色.

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Chest, abdomen and miscellaneous side gray stripe maroon.

胸部 、 腹部及体侧杂有灰栗色斑纹.

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You have the volume volume short hair, under the setting sun maroon quiet are and tasteful.

你有著卷卷的短发, 夕阳下的栗色沉静幽雅.

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'I'm Ben Gunn, I am,'replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment.

“ 是的, 我是本-刚恩, ”这位放逐在荒滩上的水手答道, 一面不好意思地像鳗鱼一样扭动着身子.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

No black or maroon color lip stick.

不可涂抹黑色或深褐色的口红.

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You have the volume volume short hair, under the setting sun maroon quiet are tasteful.

你有着卷卷的短发, 夕阳下的栗色沉静幽雅.

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When the tide came in I was a maroon out there.

涨潮时,我在那里游荡.

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Pirates used to maroon people on desert islands.

海盗过去惯常把人们遗弃在荒岛.

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The Mesabi Iron Range, a brutish stretch of maroon hillocks ( John McCormick ) See Synonyms at brute.

梅萨比艾恩山是褐紫红色山脉中艰险的一段 ( 约翰·麦考密克 ) 参见.

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She opened the tie box and looked at her purchase. It was silk, with maroon stripes.

她打开领带盒，看着她买回的东西：一条带有褐红色条纹的丝制领带。

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