1. 1(美式拼法)變色、褪色。台灣課本較常見 discolour。

    Discolor is the American spelling of . The meaning does not change: a thing discolors when its colour shifts in a way that looks worse — a white shirt gone yellow, a cut apple gone brown, a wall the sun has stained. American books, sites, and product labels write discolor; many Taiwan textbooks write . Neither is a different word. They are the same verb in two jackets. Though actually, you will meet both in the same week online, so it helps to treat them as twins, not as a right spelling and a wrong one. The matching American noun is discoloration.

core核心畫面

組成dis- (undo, take away) + color (American spelling of colour). From Old French descolorer / discolorer.

同家族的字

  • discolourthe same word, spelled the British way
  • colorthe piece that means a thing’s hue
  • discolorationthe noun: the changed, often ugly, colour itself

原始詞典資料1 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。

discolorverb/dɪsˈkʰʌlə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    To change or lose color.

    • Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.
    • A bad enough bruise can discolor the skin.

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