hue

英 [hjuː]
  • n. 色彩；色度；叫声
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助记提示

1. HSL色彩模式 / HSL色彩模型: HSL色彩的表述方式是：H(hue)色相，S(saturation)饱和度，以及L(lightness)亮度。
2. 颜色模型(RGB、HSL、HSB、、CMY、CMYK, 等等).
3. 谐音“呼”----呼叫 =》hue and cry.

中文词源

hue 颜色，色彩，外表

来自古英语hyd,来自Proto-Germanic*hudiz,来自PIE*skeu,遮蔽，隐藏，词源同hide,hut.引申词义颜色，色彩，外表。词义演变比较color,来自PIE*kel,隐藏，词源同hole,cell.

hue 喊叫声

拟声词，常见于短语hue and cry,喊叫，大声抗议。

英文词源

hue (n.1)
"color," Old English hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier heow, hiow, from Proto-Germanic *hiwam (cognates: Old Norse hy "bird's down," Swedish hy "skin, complexion," Gothic hiwi "form, appearance"), from PIE *kei-, a color adjective of broad application (cognates: Sanskrit chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor," Lithuanian šyvas "white"). A common word in Old English, squeezed into obscurity after c. 1600 by color, but revived 1850s in chemistry and chromatography.
hue (n.2)
"a shouting," mid-13c., from Old French hue "outcry, noise, war or hunting cry," probably of imitative origin. Hue and cry is late 13c. as an Anglo-French legal term meaning "outcry calling for pursuit of a felon." Extended sense of "cry of alarm" is 1580s.

双语例句

1. His hair has reverted back to its original copper hue.
他的头发又变回原来的淡红棕色。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。
来自《权威词典》
3. The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
金刚石在阳光下放出五颜六色的光芒.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.
工人们吵吵闹闹反对新规定.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The water and the sky are of one hue.
水天一色.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》