complexion
參見:complexión 和 complex ion
英語 編輯
其他形式 編輯
- complection (棄用)
詞源 編輯
源自中古英語 complexion (「氣質,性格」),源自古法語 complexion(法語 complexion),源自中世紀拉丁語 complexiō (「氣質,性格」),源自complector,complexus (「纏繞,圍繞」)的過去分詞。
發音 編輯
名詞 編輯
complexion (複數 complexions)
- (棄用,醫學) 體液學說中,4種體液所構成的「氣質」
- 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. […]
- (面部的)膚色,膚質
- a rugged complexion
- 粗糙的膚質
- a sunburnt complexion
- 曬黑的面部
- 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,頁號 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, 章號 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,頁號 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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- (比喻義) 外貌,外觀
- 1910, Bernard Capes, Why Did He Do It?,頁號 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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- 觀點,態度
- 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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- (借詞,尤用於從德語翻譯的科幻作品) 組合,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.
- 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky
近義詞 編輯
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動詞 編輯
complexion (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 complexions,現在分詞 complexioning,一般過去時及過去分詞 complexioned)
- (及物) 給...某種顏色,給...上色
- 2003, Leland Krauth, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations,頁號 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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延伸閱讀 編輯
- 「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
法語 編輯
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名詞 編輯
complexion f (複數 complexions)
- 體質
- 近義詞: tempérament、constitution
延伸閱讀 編輯
- 查看「complexion」在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé(《法語數字化寶庫》)中的釋義。
古法語 編輯
詞源 編輯
首次可考於約1120年[1],借自拉丁語 complexiō。
名詞 編輯
complexion f (間接格複數 complexions,主格單數 complexion,主格複數 complexions)
參考資料 編輯
- ↑ 查看「complexion」在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé(《法語數字化寶庫》)中的釋義。
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (complession, supplement)