| 单词 | colour story |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour story f. Designating material featured in newspapers, magazines, etc., because it is evocative or interesting, rather than because of the seriousness of the content, as colour story, colour stuff, etc. ΚΠ 1919 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 27/2 Or, if the news is particularly scarce, you may do a little human interest story..mingled with a bit of color stuff about Paris in January. 1938 E. Waugh Scoop v. 89 They gave Jakes the Nobel Peace Prize for his harrowing descriptions of the carnage—but that was colour stuff. 1968 F. Mullally Munich Involvement iii. 19 Sullivan had completed his colour notes..and had cabled a short teaser story to London for the next day's edition. 1968 Listener 1 Aug. 142/1 We all spent the rest of the day rewriting the sheafs of irrelevant colour stories which we'd all been working on for weeks. 2001 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. i. 20/4 It soon became clear that Channel 4 was reluctant to confront the culpability of the legal or journalistic professions, and instead wanted a ‘colour piece’ on Pell. < as lemmas |
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