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You can picture the visible quality light gives a thing — red, blue, green — the look your eyes catch when light bounces off a surface. The verb is just that same quality being put onto something.
可以想成光打在東西上、彈回你眼睛時呈現的那種樣子——紅的、藍的、綠的。名詞講的是這個「看得到的色彩本身」；動詞只是把…更多收起
可以想成光打在東西上、彈回你眼睛時呈現的那種樣子——紅的、藍的、綠的。名詞講的是這個「看得到的色彩本身」；動詞只是把同一件事變成動作：把色彩加到某個東西上。原始詞典資料34 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。
colornoun/ˈkʌl.ə/
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The spectral composition of visible light.
- Humans and birds can perceive color.
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A subset thereof:
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- What color are your bf's eyes?
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A subset thereof:
- The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
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A subset thereof:
- This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesA subset thereof:
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A paint.
- The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
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Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
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medicinesciencesSkin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
另外 17 個記錄的用法
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A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- […] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage.
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Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- color commentator
- color commentary
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A standard, flag, or insignia:
- The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
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A standard, flag, or insignia:
- The colors were raised over the new territory.
- The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.
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A standard, flag, or insignia:
- Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
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An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- He was awarded colors for his football.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsThe morning ceremony of raising the flag.
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
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businessfinanceA third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
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mediapublishingtypographyThe relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesAny of the colored balls excluding the reds.
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A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country.
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An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
- They held possession under color of title.
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businessminingGold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal.
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slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleTo bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get".
- The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicTimbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- In other words, Brahms saves the higher violin color for the more important foreground statement and assigns the soft swirling background to middle-register violins and violas, while the cellos dominate in their best voice.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe quality of a particular vowel sound.
coloradj/ˈkʌl.ə/
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Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
- I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one.
colorverb/ˈkʌl.ə/
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To give something color.
- We could color the walls red.
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To give something color.
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To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- My kindergartener loves to color.
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To become red through increased blood flow.
- Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
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To affect without completely changing.
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
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informalTo attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- Color me confused.
- They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
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graph-theorymathematicssciencesTo assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- Can this graph be 2-colored?
- You can color any map with four colors.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
- Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.
- The Proto-Indo-European laryngeal *h₂ often colors the neutral vowel *e with an a-like quality, while *h₃ results in a more o-like quality; *h₁ has no coloring effect.
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。