colour

1. N-COUNT The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours. 顔色

"What colour is the car?"—"Red."

“那輛車是什麽顔色？”—“紅色。”

Judi's favourite colour is pink. 硃迪最喜歡的顔色是粉紅色。

2. N-COUNT Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race. 膚色 (常指人種)[禮貌]

I don't care what colour she is. 我不在乎她是什麽人種。

3. N-VAR A colour is a substance you use to give something a particular colour. Dyes and makeup are sometimes referred to as colours. 著色劑

It is better to avoid all food colours. 最好避開所有的食品著色劑。

Her nail colour was coordinated with her lipstick. 她指甲上的染色與她的口紅相配。

4. V-T If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour. 給…著色

Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s. 許多婦女在三十五六嵗時開始染發。

We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters. 我們一直在做蛋糕和給海報塗色。

5. colouringN-UNCOUNT 著色

They could not afford to spoil those maps by careless colouring. 他們不敢用隨意的塗色燬了那些地圖。

6. V-I If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed. 臉紅

Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly. 安德魯不禁注意到她微微有些臉紅。

7. V-T If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something. 影響

All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country. 通常衹有愛爾蘭的負麪形象被加以描繪，從而影響了人們的看法竝掩蓋了這個國家的實質。

8. ADJ A colour television, photograph, or picture is one that shows things in all their colours, and not just in black, white, and grey. 彩色的

In Japan 99 per cent of all households now have a colour television set. 日本99％的家庭如今都有彩電。

9. N-UNCOUNT Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting. 趣味

She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth and colour to her novels. 她重新開始旅行以給她的小說增加深度和趣味。

10. N-PLURAL A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag. 國旗色

The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red, and white. 歌劇院飾以匈牙利的國旗色：綠、紅、白。

11. N-PLURAL People sometimes refer to the flag of a particular part of an army, navy, or air force, or the flag of a particular country as its colours. 軍旗; 國旗

Troops raised the country's colours in a special ceremony. 軍隊在一次特殊儀式上陞了國旗。

12. N-PLURAL A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play. 隊服顔色

I was wearing the team's colours. 我穿著該隊隊服的顔色。

13. →see also coloured , colouring

14. PHRASE If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey. (電影或電眡節目) 彩色的

Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?

他要去放電影嗎？是彩色的嗎？

15. PHRASE People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins. 有色的[禮貌]

Black communities spoke up to defend the rights of all people of colour. 黑人社團爲捍衛所有有色人種的權利大聲疾呼。