One picture holds this word together: colour going onto something. Think of a hand with a crayon, filling colour into the shapes of a drawing. From that one picture the word reaches in two directions. Looking back at the hand, you get the activity itself, the stuff in the bottle that the colour comes from, and the word you put in front of a noun to say 'this is the thing that gives the colour'. Looking forward at the finished picture, you get the colour that is simply there on a face, a bird or a leaf, as if nature had done the colouring already.

colouring 可以想成一個很簡單的畫面:顏色被放到某個東西上面。手裡拿著蠟筆,把顏色填進線條裡。這個字是動詞 colour 加 -ing 來的,所以整個畫面裡有「動作」,也有「動作留下的結果」。往動作那一邊看,你會拿到三樣東西:上色這件事本身、你倒進去的那瓶色素、還有放在名詞前面說「這是負責給顏色的東西」的用法。往結果那一邊看,顏色不再是誰塗的,而是本來就長在那裡:一個人的膚色髮色、一隻鳥身上的花色。就像大自然早就先把色上好了。

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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

colouringadj

  • 1

    Of something that provides colour.

    • He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;...

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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