complexion

参见：complexión 和 complex ion

英语

其他形式

• complection (弃用)

词源

源自中古英语 complexion (“气质，性格”)，源自古法语 complexion（法语 complexion），源自中世纪拉丁语 complexiō (“气质，性格”)，源自complector，complexus (“缠绕，围绕”)的过去分词。

发音

• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/kəmˈplɛkʃən/

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• 韵部：-ɛkʃən
• 断字：com‧plex‧ion

名词

complexion (复数 complexions)

1. (弃用，医学) 体液学说中，4种体液所构成的“气质”
   • 1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book III, Canto X”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood […]

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   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 卷s (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC:

     “Indeed, sir,” answered the lady, with some warmth, “I cannot think there is anything easier than to cheat an old woman with a profession of love, when her complexion is amorous; and, though she is my aunt, I must say there never was a more liquorish one than her ladyship. […]

2. （面部的）肤色，肤质

   a rugged complexion

   粗糙的肤质

   a sunburnt complexion

   晒黑的面部

   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Asking for an Invitation”, 出自 Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], 卷 III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，页号 28:

     "I shall do nothing for the next week but study my costume and complexion," said she. "Ethel and myself will consider our conquests as proper compliments to your kindness."

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   • Template:RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness
   • Template:RQ:Doyle Return of Sherlock Holmes
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, 章号 I, 出自 The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

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   • 1961 11月 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, 出自 Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，页号 171:

     Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

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3. (比喻义) 外貌，外观
   • 1910, Bernard Capes, Why Did He Do It?，页号 207:

     It was a little unfortunate that the fib unfibbed gave their consultations something the complexion of that close understanding which exists between penitent and confessor.

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4. 观点，态度
   • 1844, E. A. Poe, Marginalia:

     But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion, and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.

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5. (借词，尤用于从德语翻译的科幻作品) 组合，排列
   • 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky

     Second there is the level at which the energy or velocity components of each molecule are specified. He calls this a Komplexion, which we translate literally as complexion.

近义词

• 参见Thesaurus:countenance

相关词汇

• complect
• complex
• complexional

动词

complexion (第三人称单数简单现在时 complexions，现在分词 complexioning，一般过去时及过去分词 complexioned)

1. (及物) 给...某种颜色，给...上色
   • 2003, Leland Krauth, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations，页号 118:

     源自the pale refinement of her genteel heroine to the sallow complexioning of poor white trash, Stowe colors her narrative with the hues of the body.

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延伸阅读

• “complexion”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “complexion”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587

法语

词源

古典借词，源自拉丁语 complexiō。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/kɔ̃.plɛk.sjɔ̃/

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名词

complexion f (复数 complexions)

1. 体质

   近义词： tempérament、constitution

延伸阅读

• 查看“complexion”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé（《法语数字化宝库》）中的释义。

古法语

词源

首次可考于约1120年，借自拉丁语 complexiō。

名词

complexion f (间接格复数 complexions，主格单数 complexion，主格复数 complexions)

1. (医学) 体液学说中，4种体液所构成的“气质”

参考资料

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (complession, supplement)