| 单词 | colour consciousness |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour consciousness colour consciousness n. awareness of colour; esp. the feeling that differences in skin colour, or the colour of one's own skin, have a special importance or meaning. ΚΠ 1888 Wade's Fibre & Fabric 13 Oct. 258/1 We must sense and analyze the very essences that permeate a vast universe of matter, causing each atom to absorb and radiate the elements that react on color consciousness. 1913 London Q. Rev. July 43 The title of the Japanese to treatment at least equal to that accorded to the less-developed peoples of modern Europe can be denied only because of race prejudice and colour consciousness. 1953 P. H. Abrahams Return to Goli vi. 205 Kenyatta was delicately sensitive to the slightest hint of colour consciousness. 1957 E. S. Bomback Photogr. in Colour i. 9 We live in an age of colour-consciousness. This applies not only to clothes..it applies to the home in the form of gaily coloured plastics. 1995 New Yorker 19 June 41/1 The rap scene can sound pretty benighted, in the sense that there's a lot of damaging color-consciousness. < as lemmas |
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