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N-COUNT
颜色；色彩
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.
例句
'What colour is the car?' — 'Red.'...
“车是什么颜色？”“红色。”
Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes...
她的丝绸连衣裙是天蓝色的，和她眼睛的颜色一样。
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N-VAR
颜料;染料
A colour is a substance you use to give something a particular colour. Dyes and make-up are sometimes referred to as colours .
例句
...The Body Shop Herbal Hair Colour...
美体小铺草本染发剂
It is better to avoid all food colours.
最好不要吃任何食用色素。
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VERB
(用染料、颜料等)给…着色(或染色)
If you colour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour.
例句
Many women begin colouring their hair in their mid-30s...
很多女人在三十五岁左右开始染发。
We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters...
我们一直在做蛋糕，给海报上色。
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VERB
(通常指因尴尬而)脸红
If someone colours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed.
例句
Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
安德鲁不禁注意到她有点脸红了。
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N-COUNT
(不同人种的)肤色
Someone's colour is the colour of their skin. People often use colour in this way to refer to a person's race.
例句
I don't care what colour she is...
我不在乎她的肤色。
He acknowledged that Mr Taylor's colour and ethnic origins were utterly irrelevant in the circumstances.
他承认在这种情况下泰勒先生的肤色和种族出身完全无关紧要。
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ADJ
(电视、照片或图片)彩色的
A colour television, photograph, or picture is one that shows things in all their colours, and not just in black, white, and grey.
例句
In Japan 99 per cent of all households now have a colour television set.
现在，日本99%的家庭都拥有彩色电视机。
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N-UNCOUNT
生动;趣味
Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting.
例句
She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth and colour to her novels.
她重新开始了旅行，那是增加自己小说的深度和趣味性所必不可少的。
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VERB
影响(某人的观点)
If something colours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something.
例句
All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country...
媒体往往描绘的只是爱尔兰的负面形象，影响了大家的看法，掩盖了这个国家的真实面貌。
The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned must colour the way children approach school.
父母对学知识是否有用的态度必定会影响孩子对待学业的态度。
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N-PLURAL
国旗的颜色
A country's national colours are the colours of its national flag.
例句
The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red and white.
歌剧院是以匈牙利国旗的颜色——绿、红、白三色装饰的。
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N-PLURAL
军旗;国旗
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 .
例句
Troops raised the country's colors in a special ceremony.
部队在一个特殊的仪式上升起了国旗。
...the battalion's colours.
营旗
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N-PLURAL
(运动队的)队服颜色
A sports team's colours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play.
例句
I was wearing the team's colours.
我穿着该队队衣。
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PHRASE
(考试考得)极好地，成绩出色地
If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
例句
So far McAllister seemed to have passed all the tests with flying colors.
到目前为止，麦卡利斯特似乎所有的考试都考得非常好。
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PHRASE
(电影或电视节目)彩色的
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.
例句
Was he going to show the film? Was it in colour?...
他会放那部电影吗？是彩色的吗？
You can go home afterwards and watch Inspector Morse in colour.
之后你就可以回家，看彩色版的电视连续剧《摩斯警长》。
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PHRASE
阐明观点;明确表态
If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
例句
I shall nail my colours firmly to the mast on this subject — as a feminist I find movies like this offensive.
我要非常明确地表明自己对这个主题的看法：作为一名女权主义者我认为这类电影是对女性的侮辱。
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PHRASE
表明对…的支持
If you nail your colours to someone's mast, or if you nail your colours to a particular mast, you show that you support a particular person or issue.
例句
He has nailed his colours firmly to Mr Dobson's mast...
他表示坚决支持多布森先生。
Mr Kennedy nailed his colours to the mast of the single currency.
肯尼迪先生表示支持单一货币制。
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PHRASE
看(某人)有没有足够的支付能力
If you say that you want to see the colour of someone's money, you mean that you are not prepared to sell them something or do something for them until they have proved that they have the money to pay for it.
例句
He made a mental note never to enter into conversation with a customer until he'd at least seen the colour of his money.
他心里暗暗记住，顾客至少要看上去能付得起钱，他才会去和他们搭话。
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PHRASE
(人种)有色的
People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.
例句
Black communities spoke up to defend the rights of all people of color.
黑人群体大声疾呼，要求维护有色人种的权利。
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PHRASE
(看到)…的真面目;露出…的真面目
If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
例句
The children are seeing him in his true colours for the first time now...
现在，孩子们第一次看到他的真面目。
Here, the organization has had time to show its true colours, to show its inefficiency and its bungling.
现在时间一长，这个机构就露出了真面目，效率低下，差错百出。