Roseate means pink — the soft pink of a rose, not a loud red. You will mostly meet it in careful writing, poems, and nature notes: a roseate sky just after sunset, roseate feathers on a bird.

Roseate means pinkroseate意思是粉紅色 —— the soft pink of a rose是玫瑰那種柔和的粉紅， not a loud red不是搶眼的紅色。You will mostly meet it你大多會在...遇到它 in careful writing, poems, and nature notes在講究的文章、詩，和自然筆記裡：a roseate sky just after sunset日落之後那片roseate的天空， roseate feathers on a bird鳥身上roseate的羽毛。

Everyday English is much more likely to say pink, rosy, or rose-coloured; roseate feels like a book-word, a little old-fashioned, and a little proud of itself.

Everyday English is much more likely to say日常英語比較會說 pink, rosy, or rose-colouredpink、rosy，或rose-coloured；roseate feels like a book-wordroseate感覺像書面字， a little old-fashioned有點老派， and a little proud of itself也有點自命不凡。

Though actually, people also stretch it. A roseate view of the future is a picture that is a bit too pretty, too hopeful, the way rose-coloured glasses make everything look nicer than it is.

Though actually不過其實， people also stretch it大家也會把它用得寬鬆一點。A roseate view of the future對未來抱著roseate的看法 is a picture that is a bit too pretty是一種太美好的畫面， too hopeful太樂觀， the way rose-coloured glasses make everything look nicer than it is就像戴著玫瑰色眼鏡，把一切都看得比實際更美好。

Bird people use it as a straight colour word (a roseate tern is a tern with pink on it). Nobody uses it for a pink T-shirt.

Bird people use it賞鳥的人會用它 as a straight colour word當作單純的顏色詞（a roseate tern is a tern with pink on it一隻roseate tern就是身上有粉紅色的燕鷗）。Nobody uses it沒有人會用這個字 for a pink T-shirt來講一件粉紅色T恤。