yellow
英 [ˈjel.əʊ]
美 [ˈjel.oʊ]
- adj. 黄色的；黄皮肤的
- n. 黄色；黄种人；黄色颜料
- vt. 使变黄或发黄
- vi. 变黄或发黄
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中文词源
yellow 黄色的
来自PIE*ghel,发光，照耀，词源同gold,gall,glass,引申词义发黄色光，黄色的。
英语词源
- yellow
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yellow: [OE] Yellow is a member of an ancient and widespread family of European colourterms descended from Indo-European *ghel-, *ghol-, which denoted both ‘yellow’ and ‘green’. From it were descended Latin helvus ‘yellowish’ and possibly galbus ‘greenishyellow’ (source of French jaune ‘yellow’ and English jaundice), Greek kholé ‘bile’ (source of English choleric, melancholy, etc), Russian zheltyj ‘yellow’, Lithuanian geltonas ‘yellow’, and English gall and gold.
In the Germanic languages it has produced German gelb, Dutch gel, Swedish and Danish gul, and English yellow. A yolk [OE] is etymologically a ‘yellow’ substance.
=> choleric, gall, gold, jaundice, melancholy, yolk - yellow (adj.)
- Old English geolu, geolwe, "yellow," from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German gelo, Middle Dutch ghele, Dutch geel, Middle High German gel, German gelb, Old Norse gulr, Swedish gul "yellow"), from PIE *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass). For other Indo-European "yellow" words, see Chloe.
Occasionally in Middle English used of a color closer to blue-gray or gray, of frogs or hazel eyes, and to translate Latin caeruleus, glauco. Also as a noun in Old English. Meaning "light-skinned" (of blacks) first recorded 1808. Applied to Asiatics since 1787, though the first recorded reference is to Turkish words for inhabitants of India. Yellow peril translates German die gelbe gefahr. Sense of "cowardly" is 1856, of unknown origin; the color was traditionally associated rather with jealousy and envy (17c.). Yellow-bellied "cowardly" is from 1924, probably a semi-rhyming reduplication of yellow; earlier yellow-belly was a sailor's name for a half-caste (1867) and a Texas term for Mexican soldiers (1842, based on the color of their uniforms). Yellow dog "mongrel" is attested from c. 1770; slang sense of "contemptible person" first recorded 1881. Yellow fever attested from 1748, American English (jaundice is a symptom). - yellow (v.)
- Old English geoluwian "to become yellow," from the source of yellow (adj.). Transitive sense from 1590s. Related: Yellowed; yellowing.
权威例句
- 1. I undid the bottom two buttons of my yellow and grey shirt.
- 我解开了自己黄灰相间的衬衫上最下面的两个纽扣。
- 2. The petals can be cooked with rice to colour it yellow.
- 可以把这些花瓣跟米饭一起煮，使米饭变成黄色。
- 3. Staff will be issued with new grey-and-yellow designer uniforms.
- 将会向雇员发放灰黄相间的名牌新制服。
- 4. The flowers are bronzy in bud and bright yellow when open.
- 这些花的花蕾是青铜色，开放后呈明黄色。
- 5. Steve Vickers was yellow-carded for a foul on Hunt.
- 史蒂夫·维克斯因对亨特犯规被出示黄牌。
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