音标：['kʌlә] ；柯林斯词典等级：5 级；牛津三千核心词汇；

n. 颜色, 面色, 颜料, 外貌
vt. 把...涂上颜色, 粉饰, 使脸红, 歪曲
vi. 变色

n any material used for its color
n a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
n (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
n interest and variety and intensity
n the timbre of a musical sound
n a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
n an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
n the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
v modify or bias
v decorate with colors
v give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
v affect as in thought or feeling
v add color to
v change color, often in an undesired manner
a having or capable of producing colors

词型变化：名词复数形式 : colours ; 过去分词 : coloured ; 现在分词 : colouring ; 过去式 : coloured ; 第三人称单数 : colours
考试类型：[中考/高考]

colour的用法和样例：

例句

用作名词(n.)

She painted the window sills a bright colour.她把窗台漆上鲜艳的颜色。
His dress is very similar to mine in colour.他衣服的颜色和我衣服的很相似。
That colour doesn't suit your complexion.那颜色不适合你的肤色。
Colour is often an additive in foods.颜料经常是各种食物中的添加物。
Either dye or paints are used to colour cloth.不论是染料还是颜料都是用来染布的。
The printer will output colour graph.这台打印机将输出彩色图表。
Children enjoy watching colour TV.儿童喜欢看彩色电视。
The natives were intrigued with the colour of our skin.当地人对我们的肤色感到好奇。

用作及物动词(vt.)

The wind of the autumn colour the maples carmine .秋风给枫林涂抹胭红。
He hashed a phrase in order to colour the sentence.他反复推敲一个习语以使该句增色。
News is often coloured.新闻报道常常被夸张。
Don't allow personal loyalty to colour your judgement.不要因讲义气而影响了你的判断。
A judge can't let personal feelings colour his decisions.法官不能让个人感情影响他的裁决。

用作不及物动词(vi.)

The leaves start to colour in autumn.树叶在秋天开始变色。
She coloured with embarrassment at his remarks.她听到他的话因受窘而脸红了。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)

I think the colour of the paint will blend in the wall very nicely.我认为这幅画的颜色会跟墙很和谐。
The colour of these curtains approximates that of the rug.这些窗帘的颜色与地毯的颜色接近。
The colour of the wall and the colour of the carpet will blend together.墙的颜色和地毯的颜色很和谐。
This colour shows your complexion off to the best advantage.这种颜色使你的脸显得格外好看。
The new colour is lighter, and the old paint shows through.新刷的漆颜色较浅,使原来的漆显露出来。
Will the colour in this material fade?这种料子的颜色褪色吗?
Why split hairs over the colour of the dress?为什么对衣服的颜色这类小事争论不休?
This colour lends warmth to the room, as it gets no natural sunlight.这种颜色给房间增添了暖和的感觉,因为这房间得不到自然阳光的照射。
This colour will last.这颜色耐久。
Take care to match the sewing thread with the cloth so that the stitches, being of the same colour, will not show.要尽量使线的颜色和布相配,这样就看不出线缝了。
Her husband mixed the colour for her.她的丈夫给她调了颜色。
The artist mixed blue with yellow paint to produce the colour green he wanted.这位画家把蓝色的颜料和黄色的颜料调和起来，配成他需要的绿颜色。
Sugar acquires a brown colour by being burnt.砂糖炒焦了便成茶褐色。
You can stain the wood with this special liquid to give it a pleasing colour.你可以用这特制的液体染这块木料,使之看起来赏心悦目。
I want to paint my bed a bright colour.我想把我的床漆上一种明亮的颜色。
A colour may kill another near it.一种颜色可能使相近的颜色显不出来。
Do you think these two colours will blend together?你认为这两种颜色和谐吗?
He painted some bees with little spots of colours.他在一些蜜蜂身上点上颜色。
These colours won't last if exposed to the sun.这些颜色如果暴露于阳光下,其色彩是不会维持多久的。
I matched the colour of my sweater with the colour of my shirt.我使毛线衫的颜色和裙子的颜色协调起来。
The two colours jar.这两种颜色不谐调。
Keep the background colours dark so that the main figure will show more clearly.背景的色调要暗,这样主要人物就会更突出了。
The colours go so very well together.这颜色搭配得极好。
The bright colours engage a baby's attention.鲜艳的颜色引起婴孩的注意。
The painter was busy mixing his colours.画家在忙着调颜色。
You can adjust the colour on the TV by turning this knob.你可以转动这个旋钮来调整电视的颜色。
I try my best to blend the colour of the paint (in) with the curtains.我尽量使这幅画的色调和窗帘的颜色和谐。
Blue, red and yellow are colours.蓝、红、黄都是颜色。
Everything we see has colour.我们能看到的每一样东西都有颜色。
Please sort these cards according to their colour.请按颜色将这些卡片分开。
The little girl paints nicely in water colours.小姑娘的水彩画画得很好。
(Of) what colour is his new car?他的新车是什么颜色的?
(With) what colour shall I paint your door?我用什么颜色给你刷门?
My car is (of) the same colour as yours.我的车和你的车颜色一样。
The bright colours of the flowers arrested the girl's attention.花的艳丽色彩引起了那姑娘的注意。
Insects are attracted to flowers by their colour, scent and nectar.昆虫为花的色彩、香气和花蜜所吸引。
The painter evolved his ideas about the form and colour out of the work of an earlier artist.这位画家从一位早期美术家的作品中形成了他对形式与色彩的见解。
The design of the building is well matched in colour.这幢建筑物的设计在色彩上很调和。
The room is lacking in colour.这间房缺乏色彩。
The azaleas made a mass of colour in the garden.杜鹃花给花园添了一片色彩。
Do you like oil paintings or water colour?你喜欢油画还是喜欢水彩画?
The painter has left many water colour sketches that have won for him a significant place.那位画家给后世留下了许多水彩素描,为他在绘画史上赢得了一席之地。
Our new neighbour is always flinging his money about, with his colour television and his new car every year.我们的新邻居为了摆阔气总是乱花钱,每年买一台彩色电视和一辆新车。
They are saving up to buy a colour TV set.他们在存钱买彩色电视机。
The thieves couldn't shift any of those stolen colour televisions.这伙盗贼无法把任何一部偷来的彩色电视机脱手。
The price of the colour TV has jumped to five thousand yuan .彩电的价格已突升到5000元。
He is going with me to help me pick out a colour TV set.他要陪我一起去,帮我选一台彩电。
She loves the life, noise, and colour of the market.她喜欢市场的热闹、喧哗和多彩多姿。
He lost colour during his illness.他生病期间脸色变得很苍白。
The fever gave her a high colour.发烧使她的脸都变红了。
The old lady became angry at the remarks and changed colour.老太太听了这些话非常生气,脸变得通红。
The clothes blends in with her colour of skin very much.这件衣服和她的肤色很协调。
We raised our colours when we reached the top of the mountain.当我们到达山顶的时候，我们升起了我们的队旗。
There is a pirate ship under false colours on the sea.海上有一只海盗船挂着假冒的旗帜航行。
He would rather die than lower his colours.他宁死不屈。
In the face of sharp criticisms the young scientist still stuck to his colours.面对着尖锐的批评,这位青年科学家依然坚持自己的主张。
This only serves to expose more clearly their true colours.这只不过使他们的真面目暴露得更清楚。

用作动词(v.)

用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

The question was unexpected. She coloured very slightly.问题出乎意料,她脸稍微有一点红。
As soon as he started arguing he coloured quickly.他一开始争辩,脸就马上红起来。
The Cardinal coloured with vexation.红衣主教感到恼火,脸涨得通红。

用作及物动词S+～+ n./pron.

Either dye or paints are used to colour cloth.不论是染料还是颜料都是用来染布的。
Mary coloured her picture with pencils.玛丽用彩色铅笔给她的图画上色。
The child coloured all the shapes on the page with a crayon.那孩子用蜡笔把这页上所有的图形都涂上了颜色。
Personal feelings coloured his judgement.他的判断带有个人感情的色彩。
The witness coloured his testimony.那个证人歪曲了他的证词。
Don't let your personal feelings colour your judgment.别让你个人的感情左右你的决断。
She tried to colour her lie.她试着掩饰她的谎言。
She tried to colour her nervousness as she waited to make her speech.在她等候发言时,她竭力掩饰紧张的心情。

News is often coloured.新闻常被渲染。
Travellers' tales are often highly coloured.旅行者的故事常是极为夸张的。
His criticisms are clearly coloured by hostility.他的批评明显带有敌意。
One's point of view is necessarily coloured by past experience.一个人的观点必然会受到以往经历的影响。

用作宾补动词S+～+ n./pron. + n./adj.

He coloured the walls green.他把墙壁刷成绿色。
He didn't like white, so he decided to colour the sheet green.他不喜欢白色,因此决定把被单染成绿色。

The soap was coloured a light blue.肥皂做成了浅蓝色。
The bird is coloured yellowish in the back, wings and tail.这鸟的背部、翼、尾羽呈淡黄色。

其他v -ed as Attrib.

The coloured flags are fluttering in the breeze.彩旗在微风中飘扬。
The flame in the furnace can be looked at through coloured glasses.可以通过有色眼镜观看高炉内的火焰。

常用短语

用作名词(n.)

give a false colour to

歪曲 give a wrong character or tonegive sb his colours

把某人选入运动队 choose sb to be one of sports team membershaul down one's colours

妥协,投降,认输 yield; admit defeatlay on the colours

夸大 exaggeratelend colour to

使显得更真实或更可信 make sth seem more likelylower one's colours

放弃要求 give up one's demandnail colours to the mast

明确表示自己的观点; 阐明观点 declare one's opinionoff colour

色泽不佳; 身体不舒服 not in good healthput false colour upon

歪曲 distortsail under false colours

冒充,欺骗 be a hypocrite or impostorsee in its true colours

It's not easy to see the matter in its true colours.

看清此事的真相不容易。

see the colour of sb's money

接受某人的钱 receive one's moneyshow one's true colour

露出真面目 show what one really isstick to one's colour

坚持自己的观点refuse to change one's opinion or partywith flying colours

出色地 outstanding; remarkable

用作动词(v.)

colour in (v.+prep.)

The child was colouring in a series of outline drawings.

这孩子在给一套素描着色。

colour up (v.+adv.)

She coloured up at the young man's name.

一提到那个青年男子的名字,她的脸就红了。

He coloured up with annoyance.

他因愤怒而脸色变红。

Some journalists like to colour their stories up with alluring details of people's private lives.

一些新闻记者喜欢用诱人的私生活细节来夸大故事。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

add colour添色
alter〔turn〕 colour改变颜色
assume colour呈一色
blend colour混合颜色
change colour变色
gain〔lose〕 colour脸色变得红润〔脸色变得苍白〕
give〔lend〕 colour to使…显得可信,给…增添色彩
have a high colour脸色红润
match the colour of sth与某物的颜色相称
put in colours着色
wear colours穿有色彩的衣服

形容词+～

beautiful〔bright, clear〕 colour美丽〔鲜明,清晰〕的颜色
cold〔warm〕 colour冷〔暖〕色
fashionable〔prevalent〕 colour流行色
local〔political〕 colour地方〔政治〕色彩
organic colour有机颜料
pink colour粉色
protective colour保护色
rich colour丰富的色彩
soft colour柔和的颜色
tender colour温柔的脸色
tinting colour着色颜料
transparent colour透明色彩
watery colour水彩色

～+名词

colour film〔photo〕彩色电影〔照片〕

介词+～

film in colour彩色电影
in dark colours悲观地
people of all colours各色人种
under the colour of friendship以友谊为借口
without colour不加渲染

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

colour all the shapes把所有的图形都涂上了颜色
colour cloth染布
colour news渲染消息
colour one's testimony歪曲证词
colour tales夸张故事
colour the picture给图画上色

～+副词

colour amusingly染上令人吃惊的颜色
colour angrily染上令人生气的颜色
colour brilliantly染上明亮的颜色
colour conspicuously染上显而易见的颜色
colour distinctly染上截然不同的颜色
colour emotionally染上令人激动的颜色
colour enchantingly染上令人着迷的颜色
colour exquisitely染上精美的颜色
colour faintly染上暗淡的颜色
colour garishly染上鲜艳夺目的颜色
colour gorgeously染上华丽的颜色
colour harmoniously染上和谐的颜色
colour highly染上十分好的颜色
colour incredibly惊人地脸红
colour lavishly染上过分的颜色
colour necessarily必要地着色
colour normally正常地涂色
colour obscurely染上不清楚的颜色
colour painfully染上令人痛心的颜色
colour synthetically染上综合性的颜色
colour unevenly染上不均的颜色
colour violently猛劲地渲染
colour up脸红,夸大

～+介词

colour by受到…影响,带有…意向
colour in着色
colour with用…着色

经典引文

Her hair..was a rich auburn colour.
出自：Day Lewis
The colours the Duke preferred were gay and warm; no greens, blues, black or white.
出自：E. Longford
Finish the picture by joining the dots...Colour it with crayons or felt-tips.
出自：Church Times
Her dances are romantically coloring the world after nature.
出自：Globe Mail (Toronto)

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单词：colour

colour的用法和样例：

例句

常见句型

常用短语

词汇搭配

经典引文

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