hue

noun

/hjuː/

Idioms

(literary or specialist) a colour; a particular shade of a colour颜色；色调；色相
- His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。
- Her paintings capture the subtle hues of the countryside in autumn.她的油画捕捉住了秋天乡村的微妙色调。
Synonyms colour
colour
- shade
- hue
- tint
- tinge
These words all describe the appearance of things, resulting from the way in which they reflect light.
- 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?你最喜欢什么颜色？bright/dark/light colours明亮/黑暗/明亮的颜色
- 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.她的眼睛是淡绿色的。
- hue (literary or technical) a colour or a particular shade of a colour: His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue.他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。
- tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface: leaves with red and gold autumn tints金秋时节略呈红黄色的树叶
- tinge a small amount of a colour: There was a pink tinge to the sky.天空略带一点淡淡的粉红色。
tint or tinge?用 tint 还是 tinge？You can say: a reddish tint/tinge or: a tinge of red but not: a tint of red. Tint is often used in the plural, but tinge is almost always singular.Patterns
- 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；观点
- supporters of every political hue各种政治信仰的拥护者
Topics Opinion and argumentc2

词源Old 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公众的强烈抗议
- Further cuts in welfare have raised a hue and cry among the American public.福利的进一步削减在美国公众中引起了强烈的反响。

词汇	hue
释义	hue noun /hjuː/ /hjuː/ Idioms (literary or specialist) a colour; a particular shade of a colour颜色；色调；色相 His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。 Her paintings capture the subtle hues of the countryside in autumn.她的油画捕捉住了秋天乡村的微妙色调。 Synonyms colourcolour shade hue tint tinge These words all describe the appearance of things, resulting from the way in which they reflect light. 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?你最喜欢什么颜色？bright/dark/light colours明亮/黑暗/明亮的颜色 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.她的眼睛是淡绿色的。 hue (literary or technical) a colour or a particular shade of a colour: His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue.他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。 tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface: leaves with red and gold autumn tints金秋时节略呈红黄色的树叶 tinge a small amount of a colour: There was a pink tinge to the sky.天空略带一点淡淡的粉红色。 tint or tinge?用 tint 还是 tinge？You can say: a reddish tint/tinge or: a tinge of red but not: a tint of red. Tint is often used in the plural, but tinge is almost always singular.Patterns 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；观点 supporters of every political hue各种政治信仰的拥护者 Topics Opinion and argumentc2 词源Old 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公众的强烈抗议 Further cuts in welfare have raised a hue and cry among the American public.福利的进一步削减在美国公众中引起了强烈的反响。
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