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Crimson is a deep, rich red color, a little darker and more purple than a bright fire-engine red - think of dried blood, or a deep red rose. It's a word you'll meet more in descriptive writing - novels, poetry, fashion - than in everyday talk, where people usually just say 'dark red'.
深紅色、緋紅色
組成It probably traces back, through several older languages, to a word for a small red dye-making insect - but the exact path is a bit tangled, so I wouldn't want to promise the details.
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。
crimsonnoun/ˈkɹɪmzən/
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A deep, slightly bluish red.
- To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.
crimsonadj/ˈkɹɪmzən/
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Having a deep red colour.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
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Immodest.
crimsonverb/ˈkɹɪmzən/
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To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
- Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned.
- 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662, Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower? Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,
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To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
- Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand, Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.
- Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […]”
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。