She loved the life, noise, and colour of the market. 她爱市场上的生趣、喧哗与多姿多彩。
What colour did you paint the door? 你把门漆成什么颜色?
The leaves have started to colour; it will soon be winter. 树叶已开始变色,很快就是冬天了。
colour
[ noun ]
any material used for its color
<noun.substance> she used a different color for the trim
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
<noun.group>
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
<noun.cognition> each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
interest and variety and intensity
<noun.attribute> the Puritan Period was lacking in color the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
the timbre of a musical sound
<noun.attribute> the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
<noun.attribute> a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
<noun.attribute> he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction the situation soon took on a different color
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
<adj.all> color film he rented a color television marvelous color illustrations
Colour \Col"our\, n. See {Color}. [Brit.]
Color \Col"or\ (k[u^]l"[~e]r), n. [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.
2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.
3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak.
4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30.
That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak.
6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak.
7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow.
8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone.
Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading.
{Body color}. See under {Body}.
{Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}.
{Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.
{Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.
{Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}.
{Subjective color} or {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}.
It will add production facilities for personal computers, facsimile machines, colour display tubes and semiconductors.
Infra-red emissions are suppressed by a new optical filtering technique and colour contrast is thus improved and light reflection reduced.
'You will never get the same intensity of colour with microfibres,' says Bartle. The greater surface area can be useful, however.
Intelligent Networks, the London-based computer systems integrator, is using Amstrad colour laptops for its design and implementation of the new Tokyo Sugar Exchange network.
Brash, unsuitable ties - penguin and teddy bear motifs seem popular - remain the norm. The colour is still to be found, but you have to look increasingly hard to spot it.
What a voice, even throughout the range, full of colour, zest and verbal inflections, with plebeian mockery peeping out from beneath a 'gentlemanly' exterior.
They flower freely on pergolas in Somerset or up the front of sunny houses in London, showing small roses whose double flowers are the colour of lightly scrambled egg.
Vivified by subtle colour filters or skewed camera angles, trivial objects assume an eerie life: like the blue lollipop, once her daughter's, that Binoche sucks on like a memory-teat. Meanwhile human faces turn into mystery objects.
Most of the time, all the political parties - of every colour - are ranged against the League.
Ades boasts a masterly control of touch and colour.
Its 120 rooms feature colour TVs.
If they import some garments which turn out not to be the right colour they often turn to us.
They perm it and tease it, colour it and twist it.
The background colour is 'basil' blue and the stripes are the light and dark blues of Cambridge and Oxford - the home of 'dons'.
It divides the image into different layers, which in Europa we exaggerated by using colour and black-and-white. When we wrote the script we spelled it out in terms of 'close-ups', 'long shots' and so on.
The improved performance has come from increased cover prices, the appeal of colour to advertisers, and inserting. Two things are unlikely to change at a publicly quoted Mirror Group Newspapers.
And 65 per cent said price reductions would encourage them to buy colour notebooks. The most popular application for colour notebook PCs is word processing, mentioned by 88 per cent of respondents.
And 65 per cent said price reductions would encourage them to buy colour notebooks. The most popular application for colour notebook PCs is word processing, mentioned by 88 per cent of respondents.
Frowning with concentration, they dipped their goose-feather quills into a warm jar of honey-comb wax to mark areas of natural colour on egg shells.
Recent studies, however, have shown that footwork is simply the best way to derive the maximum colour and extract in the shortest period of time.
It is an unremarkable piece, decking out a thoroughly traditional framework with modish clarinet effects, but the performance was memorable for the solo playing of Kari Kriikku, extraordinary in its seamless fluency, range of colour and virtuoso elan.
The result: Britain now has flourishing colour television and car industries. True, sad things have happened to British companies in those industries.
Last year, Sony chose Pencoed in mid-Glamorgan to build a factory making colour TV sets and computer display monitors.
Checks are slightly informal but red is a town colour and the traditional collar and double cuffs are smart.
Her two shops have sofas, a warm welcome and a willingness to make any design in any colour the customer fancies.
For the whites FFr75,000 was paid for the Batard-Montrachet Cuvee Dames de Flandres. Overall, the new Hospices wines have good colour, are well-balanced and fairly light.
From their example came the amplified scale of her work, its light and open surface and space generated by clear, pure colour.
Many of the quality standards we are meeting are purely aesthetic - smell, colour, taste.' Water companies have pledged to spend Pounds 28bn during the 1990s to meet EC standards.
The software enables the designer to change the seating plan or even the colour of the fabric. At PSD the designers are looking ahead to further uses of the system, in particular where it can be used to speed up the design process.
Potential applications range from short-run 'distributed' printing to greeting cards, personalised colour printing and low-volume book publishing. Pre-production versions of the E-Print 1000 are already in operation in Japan.