colour的近义词是：tinge；tint。colour的词语用法是n.(名词)colour的基本意思是“颜色”，指由物体发射、反射或透过的光波通过视觉所产生的印象。指具体“颜色”时,是可数名词,泛指“颜色”时是不可数名词。colour的读音是英['kʌlə(r)]；美['kʌlər]。
一、详尽释义点此查看colour的详细内容
二、词典解释
1.颜色；色彩
Thecolour 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.
e.g. 'Whatcolour is the car?' — 'Red.'...
“车是什么颜色？”“红色。”
e.g. Her silk dress was sky-blue, thecolour of her eyes...
她的丝绸连衣裙是天蓝色的，和她眼睛的颜色一样。
2.颜料;染料
Acolour is a substance you use to give something a particular colour. Dyes and make-up are sometimes referred to ascolours .
e.g. ...The Body Shop Herbal HairColour...
美体小铺草本染发剂
e.g. It is better to avoid all food colours.
最好不要吃任何食用色素。
3.(用染料、颜料等)给…着色(或染色)
If youcolour something, you use something such as dyes or paint to change its colour.
e.g. 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。
e.g. We'd been making cakes and colouring the posters...
我们一直在做蛋糕，给海报上色。
4.(通常指因尴尬而)脸红
If someonecolours, their face becomes redder than it normally is, usually because they are embarrassed.
colour
e.g. Andrew couldn't help noticing that she coloured slightly.
安德鲁不禁注意到她有点脸红了。
5.(不同人种的)肤色
Someone'scolour is the colour of their skin. People often usecolour in this way to refer to a person's race.
e.g. I don't care whatcolour she is...
我不在乎她的肤色。
e.g. He acknowledged that Mr Taylor'scolour 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。
6.(电视、照片或图片)彩色的
Acolour television, photograph, or picture is one that shows things in all their colours, and not just in black, white, and grey.
e.g. In Japan 99 per cent of all households now have acolour television set.
现在，日本99%的家庭都拥有彩色电视机。
7.生动;趣味
Colour is a quality that makes something especially interesting or exciting.
e.g. She had resumed the travel necessary to add depth andcolour 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。
8.影响(某人的观点)
If somethingcolours your opinion, it affects the way that you think about something.
e.g. 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。
e.g. The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned mustcolour 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。
9.国旗的颜色
A country's nationalcolours are the colours of its national flag.
e.g. The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian nationalcolours: 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。
10.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 itscolours .
e.g. 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。
e.g. ...the battalion's colours.
营旗
11.(运动队的)队服颜色
A sports team'scolours are the colours of the clothes they wear when they play.
e.g. I was wearing the team's colours.
我穿着该队队衣。
12. see also: coloured;colouring
13.(考试考得)极好地，成绩出色地
If you pass a testwith flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
colour的翻译
e.g. 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。
14.(电影或电视节目)彩色的
If a film or television programme isin colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey.
e.g. Was he going to show the film? Was it incolour?...
他会放那部电影吗？是彩色的吗？
e.g. You can go home afterwards and watch Inspector Morse incolour.
之后你就可以回家，看彩色版的电视连续剧《摩斯警长》。
15.阐明观点;明确表态
If someonenails theircolours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
colour什么意思
e.g. I shall nail mycolours 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。
16.表明对…的支持
If younail yourcolours to someone'smast, or if younail yourcolours to a particularmast, you show that you support a particular person or issue.
colour在线翻译
e.g. He has nailed his colours firmly to Mr Dobson's mast...
他表示坚决支持多布森先生。
e.g. 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。
17.看(某人)有没有足够的支付能力
If you say that you want tosee the colour of someone'smoney, 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.
e.g. He made a mental note never to enter into conversation with a customer until he'd at least seen thecolour 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。
18.(人种)有色的
Peopleof colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.
colour
e.g. 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。
19.(看到)…的真面目;露出…的真面目
If you see someonein theirtrue colours or if theyshow theirtrue colours, you realize what they are really like.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
相关词组：colour in
三、网络解释
1. 彩色：它有两档:自动(AUTO)档,可自动决定播放或录取信号为彩色或黑白;彩色(COLOUR)档,用于视频信号很弱、彩色不稳定的情况,置接话筒插孔,有的机型内还采用戽链器件(BBD)组成的延时混响电路,能使盖,已照部分也不会曝光损失.
2. 克拉：现在的上海话,既有无锡、苏州一带的吴侬软语的基因,也有宁波绍兴一带的又硬又快的方言的遗传,也未必没有上海人不屑的苏北话因素,甚至还夹杂着一些洋泾浜英语词汇,比如小开(kite),大班(banker),克拉(colour),台型(dashing),
四、例句
She painted the window sills a bright colour.
她把窗台漆上鲜艳的颜色。
His dress is very similar to mine in colour.
他衣服的颜色和我衣服的很相似。
That colour doesn't suit your complexion.
那颜色不适合你的肤色。
Colour is often an additive in foods.
颜料经常是各种食物中的添加物。
Either dye or paints are used to colour cloth.
不论是染料还是颜料都是用来染布的。
The printer will output colour graph.
这台打印机将输出彩色图表。
Children enjoy watching colour TV.
儿童喜欢看彩色电视。
The natives were intrigued with the colour of our skin.
当地人对我们的肤色感到好奇。
The wind of the autumn colour the maples carmine .
秋风给枫林涂抹胭红。
He hashed a phrase in order to colour the sentence.
他反复推敲一个习语以使该句增色。
News is often coloured.
新闻报道常常被夸张。
Don't allow personal loyalty to colour your judgement.
不要因讲义气而影响了你的判断。
A judge can't let personal feelings colour his decisions.
法官不能让个人感情影响他的裁决。
The leaves start to colour in autumn.
树叶在秋天开始变色。
She coloured with embarrassment at his remarks.
她听到他的话因受窘而脸红了。
五、常见句型
六、常用短语
It's not easy to see the matter in its true colours.
看清此事的真相不容易。
The child was colouring in a series of outline drawings.
这孩子在给一套素描着色。
She coloured up at the young man's name.
一提到那个青年男子的名字,她的脸就红了。
He coloured up with annoyance.
他因愤怒而脸色变红。
colour sth ⇔ upSome journalists like to colour their stories up with alluring details of people's private lives.
一些新闻记者喜欢用诱人的私生活细节来夸大故事。
七、常见错误
误 She likes red colour.
正 She likes colour red.
析 colour的意思是“颜色”, red的意思是“红颜色”,意思重复。正句中的red是colour的同位语。
天空湛蓝如海。误 The sky has the colour of the deep sea.
正 The sky is the colour of deep sea.
析 当描述物体的颜色时,用动词be,不用have。
小蚂蚁被抱出茧外,此时他们的颜色还很苍白。误 The baby ants are helped out of the cocoons, still pale at colour.
正 The baby ants are helped out of the cocoons, still pale in colour.
析 和色彩名词连用要用介词in,意为“是…色的”。
这部车是红色的。误 The car is red colour.
正 The car is of red colour.
正 The car is red.
这部车是红褐色的。误 The car is reddish-brown colour.
正 The car is a reddish-brown colour.
析 colour由表示颜色的词(如red, blue, green, etc.)修饰时,不能直接用在be之后,但可用“be of+red+colour”结构。如不用colour,直接用red等表示颜色的名词作表语,则可以直接用在be 之后,此时是省略了介词of。如果该颜色不常见,特别是复合词,有“一种…色”的描绘意味,则可直接修饰colour,其前还常加不定冠词a,这时也可看作用在be之后且省略of。
colour的相关近义词
tinge、tint、tone、blush、stain、tinge
colour的相关临近词
coloured、colossus、coloure、coloury、colourity、colourate、colourize、colourant、colour in、colour up、colourway、colourman