"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 šyvas "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.
双语例句
1. His hair has reverted back to its original copper hue.
他的头发又变回原来的淡红棕色。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。
来自《权威词典》
3. The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
金刚石在阳光下放出五颜六色的光芒.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.