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Beige is a pale brown — like sand mixed with a little cream, or wool before anyone dyes it. Clothes, walls, and sofas are often beige because the colour feels quiet and safe.
Beige米色 is是 a pale brown一種淺褐色 like像是 sand mixed with a little cream混了一點奶油的沙子 or wool before anyone dyes it或是還沒染色的羊毛。Clothes, walls, and sofas衣服、牆壁和沙發 are often經常是 beige米色的 because因為 the colour feels quiet and safe這個顏色讓人覺得安靜又保險。
You can use it as a noun (a room in beige) or as an adjective (a beige coat). It is an ordinary colour word, not slang and not technical.
You can use it你可以把它當作 as a noun名詞來用 a room in beige（一個米色的房間） or as an adjective或是當作形容詞 a beige coat（一件米色外套）。It它 is是 an ordinary colour word一個普通的顏色詞 not slang不是俚語 and not technical也不是專業術語。
Though actually, people also stretch it: a beige personality means dull, with nothing sharp or bright about it. That use is informal and a little .
Though actually不過 people also stretch it人們也會把它引申使用 a beige personality「beige personality」（米色個性） means指的是 dull無趣 with nothing sharp or bright about it沒有任何鮮明或亮眼的地方。That use這種用法 is是 informal非正式的 and a little unkind而且有點不太客氣。
The name came into English from French, still looking like French, which is why it does not sound like a home-grown English colour word such as brown.
The name這個字 came into English from French從法文進入英文 still looking like French看起來還是很像法文 which is why這就是為什麼 it does not sound like a home-grown English colour word它聽起來不像土生土長的英文顏色詞 such as brown像brown（棕色）那樣。
組成Borrowed as-is from French beige, from Old French bege, the colour of undyed wool or cotton. That probably goes back through an Alpine form and Vulgar Latin *bysseus (‘cottony grey’) to Late Latin byssus, ‘cotton’, from Greek, and before that to a Semitic word for fine cloth. English bice is a doublet from the same distant source, but bice now names a blue-green pigment, not this fashion colour.
同家族的字
- bicea doublet: both go back to the same Late Latin cotton word, though bice now names a pigment
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beigenoun/ˈbeɪʒ/
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A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
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Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
beigeadj/ˈbeɪʒ/
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Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
- Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.
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informalComfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
- Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.
- In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。