- 1細微差別；微妙之處（顏色、語氣、意思上差那麼一點點）
A nuance is a very small difference that you might not notice at first. Two reds can look the same until you hold them together; that thin gap in colour is a nuance. In talk, a nuance is a small turn in meaning or feeling: the same sentence can sound kind or cold if you change one word, or the way you say it. People who work with art, wine, law, or language like this word, because their job is to catch those thin lines. In everyday chat it can sound a bit fancy; in a careful review or argument it sounds just right. If someone says “there is a nuance here,” they mean it is not a simple yes or no. Though actually, speakers also stretch it: “I missed the nuance” often means “I missed the fine point,” with no colour in sight.
組成Borrowed from French nuance, a shade of colour or meaning. Further back it comes from Latin nūbēs, “cloud” — the picture is a soft change, like light through cloud. Italian has a sister picture in sfumatura, from the word for smoke, but that is not the parent of the English word.
同家族的字
- nuancedthe adjective: full of these small differences
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
nuancenoun/ˈnjuː.ɑːns/
- 1
A minor distinction.
- hidden nuances
- 2
Subtlety or fine detail.
- Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.
- […] the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded (nuance), that the remarkable differences become obliterated […]
nuanceverb/ˈnjuː.ɑːns/
- 1
To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。