"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 ?yvas "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.
雙語例句
1. His hair has reverted back to its original copper hue.
他的頭發(fā)又變回原來的淡紅棕色。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
他的臉上透出一絲病態(tài)的蒼白。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
金剛石在陽光下放出五顏六色的光芒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.