• n. 色彩；色度；叫聲

來自古英語hyd,來自Proto-Germanic*hudiz,來自PIE*skeu,遮蔽，隱藏，詞源同hide,hut.引申詞義顏色，色彩，外表。詞義演變比較color,來自PIE*kel,隱藏，詞源同hole,cell.

擬聲詞，常見于短語hue and cry,喊叫，大聲抗議。

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 ?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.

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.

工人們吵吵鬧鬧反對新規(guī)定.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The water and the sky are of one hue.

水天一色.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》