- 1
Dun is a quiet, dusty colour: brown with a lot of grey in it, like dry earth, a mouse, or grass that has gone pale. It is not a warm coffee brown and not a clean grey.
Dun is a quiet, dusty colourDun是一種低調、帶塵土感的顏色： brown with a lot of grey in it是加了很多灰色的棕色， like dry earth, a mouse, or grass that has gone pale就像乾土、老鼠，或褪色的枯草那樣。 It is not a warm coffee brown它不是溫暖的咖啡棕， and not a clean grey也不是乾淨的灰色。
Painters, people who talk about cloth, and above all people who talk about horses still use the word; a dun horse has that sandy grey-brown coat, often with a darker line down the back. Everyday speakers more often just say brown or grey-brown, so dun can sound a little old or specialist, though it is not fancy.
Painters, people who talk about cloth, and above all people who talk about horses still use the word畫家、談布料的人，尤其是談馬的人還是會用這個字； a dun horse has that sandy grey-brown coata dun horse（沙灰棕色的馬）就有那種沙灰棕色的毛， often with a darker line down the back背上常常還有一條比較深的線。 Everyday speakers more often just say brown or grey-brown一般人講話比較常直接說brown（棕色）或grey-brown（灰棕色）， so dun can sound a little old or specialist所以dun聽起來會有點老派或專業， though it is not fancy不過它不是什麼花俏的字。
You will also meet dun as a noun for the colour itself.
You will also meet dun as a noun for the colour itself你也會看到dun當名詞用，直接指這個顏色本身。
Though actually, another completely different dun exists: a rather sharp verb meaning to keep asking someone for money they owe. That one is not this colour-word, even though they look the same on the page.
Though actually不過其實， another completely different dun exists還有一個完全不同的dun： a rather sharp verb meaning to keep asking someone for money they owe是個語氣頗尖銳的動詞，意思是不斷跟人討欠的錢。 That one is not this colour-word那個不是這個顏色字， even though they look the same on the page儘管寫出來長得一模一樣。
組成From Middle English dun, from Old English dunn, a dingy bark-brown. The usual story takes it from a Germanic word for brown or yellow, and further back from a very old root about smoke and raising dust — the colour of air when dust is up. Some scholars say Old English got it from Celtic instead, beside Welsh and Irish words for dark brown. Both stories are in the books; the smoke-and-dust one is the one most often told.
原始詞典資料24 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。
DUNnoun
- 1
a state legislative assembly
- 2
a state legislative assembly seat
Dunname
- 1
A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
- 2
A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
- 3
An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
- 4
A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
- 5
A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
- 6
A surname
dunnoun詞源 1/dʌn/
- 1
A brownish grey colour.
dunadj詞源 1/dʌn/
- 1
Of a brownish grey colour.
- Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, To cry, hold, hold.
- My Miſtres eyes are nothing like the Sunne, Currall is farre more red, then her lips red, If ſnow be white, why then her breſts are dun: If hairs be wiers, black wiers grow on her head: [...]
dunnoun詞源 2/dʌn/
- 1
A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- "The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world." "Mr. Maynard," said the bookseller, in a solemn tone, "it is very wrong to run in debt."
- Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other.
- 2
An urgent request or demand of payment.
- Miss Hoppin received a dun for volume 9 1840–1 which Mr. James McConnell, (who now pays the above) is sure was paid.
dunverb詞源 2/dʌn/
- 1
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- And hath she sent so soon to dun?
- Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
- 2
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.
dunnoun詞源 3/dʌn/
- 1
A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent.
- 2
fishinghobbieslifestyleA fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake.
dunnoun詞源 4/dʌn/
- 1
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- Pampedun, or Pandon, was probably a place of residence from the earliest times; its sheltered situation for boats, and proximity to the ancient way over the river, protected perhaps by a dun or camp, on the height above [...] possibly gave origin to the ancient name of the place, Pampedun, from the British pant, a hollow, and dun, a fort or camp, Pant-y-dun.
- 2
archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'.
dunverb詞源 6/dʌn/
- 1
datedTo cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
- Dun-fish are of a superior quality for the table, and are cured in such a manner as to give them a dun or brownish color. Fish for dunning are caught early in spring, and sometimes February, at the Isle of Shoals.
dunnoun詞源 7/dʌn/
- 1
A mound or small hill.
dunintj詞源 8/dʌn/
- 1
Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.
- How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)
- Dun, dun! Dun, dun! As the music continues, the long shot of Griff's walk is broken down into repeating tight shots of his face, his legs, and his shifting point of view of Brockie.
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。