- (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
- 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？ 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？ - 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
Word OriginOld 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。