1. c (音“刻”) + ray + on => 把五彩的光线刻在上面。=》为什么我们看到的是彩色蜡笔，是因为它反射的光线在我们的眼里呈现的是彩色。
2. 对比：terra cotta: 赤土；terra creta：白土、白垩。
3. Latin creta "chalk" => crayon, cretaceous.
4. The Latin word for "chalk" was creta.
5. Latin creta "chalk, pipe-clay" => cray- (很像“clay”, 意思也差不多，用白色、彩色的黏土画画儿) + -on => crayon.
6. 蜡笔小新: Crayon Shin-chan.
7. 韩国女子组合: 蜡笔团(Crayon Pop).
8. clay + on, gray + on => crayon.

crayon 彩色粉笔

来自拉丁词creta, 粉笔，石灰，见Cretaceous, 白垩纪。

1. The mother sponged crayon marks off.

母亲用湿海绵擦去了痕迹.

2. He coloured the picture with a yellow crayon.

他用黄蜡笔给画着色.

3. He coloured the picture with crayon.

他用蜡笔给画上色.

4. The crayon had been worn down to a stub.

这枝蜡笔用得只剩一小段了.

5. Shirley dropped the crayon as if it burned her fingers.

谢利连忙放下铅笔,仿佛它烫了她的手指似的.