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Scarlet is a bright, strong red, a little bit toward orange — brighter than a plain 'red' usually sounds. It's often used for something eye-catching, like a scarlet dress, or in older or more dramatic writing, and 'scarlet fever' is the name of a disease that causes a red rash.
猩紅色、深紅色
原始詞典資料7 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。
Scarletname
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A female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.
- It's not just Ribbons either. It's - get ready for this - Scarlet Ribbons. From an old Harry Belafonte record my mom had when she was about ten or something. When she grew up she was going to have a little girl and call her Scarlet Ribbons.
scarletnoun/ˈskɑɹlɪt/
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A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
- Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
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Cloth of a scarlet color.
- All her household are clothed with scarlet.
scarletadj/ˈskɑɹlɪt/
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Of a bright 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.
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Sinful or whorish.
- a scarlet woman
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Blushing; embarrassed or mortified.
- He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.
scarletverb/ˈskɑɹlɪt/
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To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet.
- Forbeare; the aſhy paleneſſe of my cheeke / Is ſcarletted in ruddy flakes of vvrath: […]
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。