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Literally, colorful describes something with a lot of bright colors, like a colorful bird or a colorful painting. Figuratively, colorful can describe a person, story, or history that's interesting and full of variety, sometimes hinting - - that it's a little wild or scandalous, like saying someone has 'a colorful past.'
色彩繽紛的（字面）／多采多姿、豐富有趣的（形容人生經歷等）
組成Built from 'color' plus '-ful' (full of).
原始詞典資料3 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。
colorfuladj/ˈkʌl.ə.fl̩/
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Possessing prominent and varied colors.
- a colourful display of flowers
- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
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Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
- He had a colourful career in the music industry.
- One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
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Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).
- Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
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。