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Complected is used after words like light, dark, fair, or olive to talk about a person’s skin colour: light-complected, dark-complected. You almost never use it alone; it wants a word in front that tells you how light or dark. It is mainly American, and a little informal. Many careful writers prefer complexioned (fair-complexioned), or they just say fair-skinned or dark-skinned. Though actually, even in American English some teachers still their nose at complected and call it loose or nonstandard — but people do say it, especially in speech and in older American writing. It does not mean “finished.” That is completed, a different word that only looks similar. And it is not a fancy way to say “.”
(淺/深)膚色的(多半寫成 light-complected、dark-complected;美式、偏口語)
組成This probably comes from complexion (膚色), with -ed added the way we say fair-haired. It does not split into smaller living English pieces on its own.
同家族的字
- complexionthe usual noun for the colour and look of a person’s skin
原始詞典資料2 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。
complectedadj
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Having a specified complexion; complexioned.
- light-complected
- I remember him as a tall, coffee-complected black man, with an extra-ordinarily delicate voice
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。