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Pinkish means a bit pink, not fully pink — a sky that is only slightly pink, a shirt that looks almost white until you hold it next to something truly white. The ending -ish is a soft “sort of”: , , work the same way. It is a gentle, everyday colour word, a little vague on purpose. You use it when you do not want to say the thing is simply pink.
帶點粉紅的、略粉的
原始詞典資料1 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。
pinkishadj/ˈpɪŋkɪʃ/
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Somewhat pink.
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- West Quantoxhead, 1½ miles to the south-west, has some handsome houses and an imposing mansion, St Audries - now a girls' school - built in the Tudor style in the 19th century, at the same time as the pinkish-buff stone Church of St Ethelreda - also called St Audrey - which has an elegant tapering spirelet.
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。