- (literary or specialist)
a colour; a particular shade of a colour 顔色；色調；色相 His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue. 他的臉上透出一絲病態的蒼白。 Her paintings capture the subtle hues of the countryside in autumn. 她的油畫捕捉住了秋天鄉村的微妙色調。
Synonyms colourcolour- shade
- hue
- tint
- tinge
- colour the appearance that things have, resulting from the way in which they reflect light. Red, green and blue are colours:
What’s your favourite colour? 你最喜歡什麽顔色？ 明亮/黑暗/明亮的顔色 - shade a particular form of a colour, especially when describing how light or dark it is. Sky blue is a shade of blue:
Her eyes were a delicate shade of green. 她的眼睛是淡綠色的。 - hue (literary or technical) a colour or a particular shade of a colour:
His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue. 他的臉上透出一絲病態的蒼白。 - tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface:
leaves with red and gold autumn tints 金秋時節略呈紅黃色的樹葉 - tinge a small amount of a colour:
There was a pink tinge to the sky. 天空略帶一點淡淡的粉紅色。
tint or tinge? 用 tint 還是 tinge？ - a warm/rich colour/shade/hue/tint
- a bright/vivid/vibrant/dark/deep colour/shade/hue
- a pale/pastel/soft/subtle/delicate colour/shade/hue
- a light/strong/neutral/natural colour/shade
- (formal)
a type of belief or opinion 信仰；觀點 supporters of every political hue 各種政治信仰的擁護者
Word OriginOld English hīw, hēow (also ‘form, appearance’, obsolete except in Scots), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish hy ‘skin, complexion’. The sense ‘colour, shade’ dates from the mid 19th cent.
Idioms
hue and cry
strong public protest about something 公衆的強烈抗議 Further cuts in welfare have raised a hue and cry among the American public. 福利的進一步削減在美國公衆中引起了強烈的反響。