| 单词 | to be coloured |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be coloured a. transitive. To impart colour to; to impregnate with colour. In early use usually in passive. to be coloured: to be of the specified colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] dyea1000 huec1000 litc1230 coloura1325 paint?c1335 infecta1398 taint1471 recolour1566 becolour1567 tinct1594 colorate1599 colourize1611 tincture1616 tint1791 encolour1850 pigment1896 a1325 Diuersa Cibaria in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 49 Milke of alemauns & [flour] of rys & god poudre of gyngere & sucre, & [hit] schal beon icolored wiþ sanc dragon. 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 70 (MED) Do þereto sugur & safroun þat yt be wel ycolowrd. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. xxii. 674 Þe Reede See..is ycolourede wiþ reede waters..and is nouȝt suche of kynde, but he is but yhewede and ydeyede. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 456 Þe rauen..watz colored as þe cole. c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 443 As the frosche rede rose newe A-ȝen the somyr sunne coloured is..al wexen gan hire hewe. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 47 Colour hit with safroune. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) ix. i. f. 288v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Colour The cawsay..was all colorit bludy and rede. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 54 Notty is added to chocolate to colour it. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 13 A skin Not coloured like his own. 1806 B. Hawkins Let. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 430 A vat of ooze to colour the leather. 1877 Globe Encycl. II. 500/2 This bird, sometimes named ‘Pharaoh's chicken’, is coloured of a general white. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliii. 861 A silver salt is coloured by exposure to light. 1970 Encycl. Brit. X. 163/1 The high-silica rocks are generally light coloured. 2001 N.Y. Times 13 May iv. 7/1 An intravenous solution containing a liquid multivitamin that colors the fluid a bright yellow. < as lemmas |
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