complexion
參見:complexión 和 complex ion
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- complection (弃用)
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源自中古英語 complexion (“气质,性格”),源自古法語 complexion(法語 complexion),源自中世紀拉丁語 complexiō (“气质,性格”),源自complector,complexus (“缠绕,围绕”)的过去分词。
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complexion (複數 complexions)
- (棄用,醫學) 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. […]
- (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,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,外观
- 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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- 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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- (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.
- 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky
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动词 编辑
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) 给...某种颜色,给...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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延伸阅读 编辑
- “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
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complexion f (複數 complexions)
- 体质
- 近義詞: tempérament、constitution
延伸阅读 编辑
- 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 编辑
词源 编辑
首次可考于约1120年[1],借自拉丁語 complexiō。
名词 编辑
complexion f (間接格複數 complexions,主格單數 complexion,主格複數 complexions)
参考资料 编辑
- ↑ 查看“complexion”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé(《法语数字化宝库》)中的释义。
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (complession, supplement)