hue
- n. 色彩;色度;叫声
词态变化
助记提示
2. 颜色模型(RGB、HSL、HSB、、CMY、CMYK, 等等).
3. 谐音“呼”----呼叫 =》hue and cry.
中文词源
来自古英语hyd,来自Proto-Germanic*hudiz,来自PIE*skeu,遮蔽,隐藏,词源同hide,hut.引申词义颜色,色彩,外表。词义演变比较color,来自PIE*kel,隐藏,词源同hole,cell.
hue 喊叫声拟声词,常见于短语hue and cry,喊叫,大声抗议。
英文词源
- hue (n.1)
- "color," Old English hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier heow, hiow, from Proto-Germanic *hiwam (cognates: Old Norse hy "bird's down," Swedish hy "skin, complexion," Gothic hiwi "form, appearance"), from PIE *kei-, a color adjective of broad application (cognates: Sanskrit chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor," Lithuanian šyvas "white"). A common word in Old English, squeezed into obscurity after c. 1600 by color, but revived 1850s in chemistry and chromatography.
- hue (n.2)
- "a shouting," mid-13c., from Old French hue "outcry, noise, war or hunting cry," probably of imitative origin. Hue and cry is late 13c. as an Anglo-French legal term meaning "outcry calling for pursuit of a felon." Extended sense of "cry of alarm" is 1580s.
双语例句
- 1. His hair has reverted back to its original copper hue.
- 他的头发又变回原来的淡红棕色。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
- 他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
- 金刚石在阳光下放出五颜六色的光芒.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.
- 工人们吵吵闹闹反对新规定.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The water and the sky are of one hue.
- 水天一色.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》