上了顏色的東西
這一組就是核心畫面本身：東西上面有顏色。它不指定是哪個顏色，要指定就把顏色的字放到前面。
adjective · B1
Having a colour, especially one that is not black, white, or plain. It is very often joined to a word that names the colour, as in cream-coloured or rose-coloured.
有顏色的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: colour has been put onto something. Coloured does not say which colour — only that colour is there, so the thing is not plain, not clear, not black and white. Name the colour by putting that word in front: cream-coloured, rose-coloured. Push the same picture harder and you get coloured, where the colour is strong enough to catch the eye. The heavy part of this word starts when the same picture is laid over people, and skin colour is treated as the colour a person carries.
coloured 可以想成「這東西上面帶著顏色」。它不說是哪一種顏色，只說「有顏色」——不是透明的，不是素的，也不是…更多收起
coloured 可以想成「這東西上面帶著顏色」。它不說是哪一種顏色，只說「有顏色」——不是透明的，不是素的，也不是黑白的。要指定顏色，就把顏色的字放到前面：cream-coloured、rose-coloured。同一個畫面再往前推一步，就成了 brightly coloured，顏色濃到會抓住眼睛。這個字最沉的部分，是同一個畫面被套在「人」身上的時候：把膚色當成一個人身上的顏色，再用它替人分類。這條路在英美留下了告示牌和表格上的 coloured，今天被聽成種族歧視語；落到南非，它卻變成一個族群自己在用的名字。Three branches
用膚色替人分類（舊時用法，極度冒犯）
同一個「上了顏色」的畫面被搬到人身上：把膚色當成一個人身上的顏色，再用它替人歸類。這條路在英美走了一整個世紀，留下告示牌、表格和報紙上的 coloured。畫面沒變，份量完全不同——今天它被聽成種族歧視語。
adjective · C1
A very offensive old word used to describe a person with dark or black skin, and, on signs and papers from the past, the places and services kept for those people. Today it is heard as a racial insult.
有色人種的（極冒犯）
南非的族群名稱
跟上一組同一條路，但落在南非，結果不一樣。南非舊時的法律把人分成幾個族群，Coloured 是其中之一，指血統來自不只一個族群的人。這個名字留了下來，很多人用它自稱，寫的時候通常大寫。
adjective · C1
In South Africa, used to describe a person whose parents or grandparents were not all of the same race, or the community these people belong to. It is usually written with a capital C.
（南非）混血族群的
原始詞典資料5 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。
colouredadj/ˈkʌl.əd/
- 1
British standard spelling of colored.
- The last quarrel arose from Mr[.] Pompeau’s being more sweet upon Miss Feliciana Woodland, a coloured spinster, than suited Mrs. Pompeau’s ideas of decorum.
- For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
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。