真的沒有顏色
這一組就是字面意思:眼睛看不出任何顏色。
adjective · B1
Having no colour at all, or almost none, like clean water or air; you can usually see straight through it.
無色的
Think of a drawing with all its lines finished and no paint on it. Everything is there — the shape, the detail, the outline — and still the eye slides off it. Colourless is that missing paint. Sometimes the thing never had colour, like water or air; sometimes the colour has drained out of it, like the blood leaving a face.
The packet's etymology tree gives colour (from Latin color, via Old French and Middle English) plus the suffix -less (Old English -lēas), so the word literally says 'without colour'.
來源的字源樹顯示這個字是 colour(經古法文、中古英語,源自拉丁文 color)加上字尾 -less(古英語 -lēas),字面就是「沒有顏色」。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, packet field etymology_text: etymology tree for colour + -less)
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真的沒有顏色
這一組就是字面意思:眼睛看不出任何顏色。
adjective · B1
Having no colour at all, or almost none, like clean water or air; you can usually see straight through it.
無色的
顏色退掉了
同樣是沒有顏色,但這裡的重點在「本來有、現在沒了」,所以它成了一個警訊。
adjective · B2
If someone's face, lips, skin, hair, or eyes are colourless, they look very pale, usually because the person is ill or frightened.
蒼白的/沒血色的
比喻上的沒有顏色
顏色被借去代表別的東西——有時代表吸引力,有時代表陣營;一旦少了,就用同一個字。
adjective · B2
Not interesting or exciting, with nothing that makes people notice or remember it — often because everything about it is plain and much the same.
乏味的/平淡無奇的
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。
colourlessadj/ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/
Having little or no colour.
Water white.
Lacking in interest or variety.
governmentpoliticsNeutral in opinion or allegiance; centrist
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。