核心畫面
Think of a market stall piled with fruit, or a wall of hanging cloth — bright colours, many of them, all at once. Nothing is grey or plain; your eye has a lot to look at. From that literal picture the word moves onto lives and language: anything that has a lot going on in it, more than the plain version would have.
可以想成一個水果攤，或是掛滿布料的一面牆：顏色又亮又多，眼睛一次接收到一大堆東西，沒有一塊是灰的、平的。colour…更多收起
可以想成一個水果攤，或是掛滿布料的一面牆：顏色又亮又多，眼睛一次接收到一大堆東西，沒有一塊是灰的、平的。colourful 最直接的畫面就在這裡。而一旦這個畫面成立，它就很容易被搬到別的地方去用——一段人生、一種說話方式，只要「內容比一般版本多、比一般版本搶眼」，英文就借這個顏色的畫面來講。原始詞典資料1 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。
colourfuladj
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British standard spelling of colorful.
- 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.
- One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
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。