a colour or shade 颜色,色彩 her face lost its golden hue. 她的脸失去了亮色。 [mass noun]verdigris is greenish-yellow in hue. 乙酸铜的颜色是绿黄色的。 ■the attribute of a colour by virtue of which it is discernible as red, green, etc., and which is dependent on its dominant wavelength, and independent of intensity or lightness 色度,色调,色泽 ■(figurative)character; aspect (喻)性质;样子 men of all political hues submerged their feuds. 各个政治派别的人消除了夙怨。
派生 hued adjective
[in combination]rainbow-hued. 彩虹色的。
hueless adjective 语源
Old English hīw, hēow (also 'form, appearance', obsolete except in Scots), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish hy 'skin, complexion'. The sense 'colour, shade' dates from the mid 19th cent