complexion
参见：complexión 和 complex ion
英语
编辑其他形式
编辑- complection (弃用)
词源
编辑源自中古英语 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
编辑名词
编辑complexion (复数 complexions)
- (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, 第 (please specify |volume=I to VI) 卷s, 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. […], 第 III 卷, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，第 28 页:
- "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年11月10日, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, 出自 Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，第 171 页:
- 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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- (比喻义) 外貌，外观
- 1910, Bernard Capes, Why Did He Do It?，第 207 页:
- 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
近义词
编辑相关词汇
编辑动词
编辑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)
- (及物) 给...某种颜色，给...上色
- 2003, Leland Krauth, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations，第 118 页:
- 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年，OCLC 800618302
- “complexion”，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587
法语
编辑词源
编辑发音
编辑名词
编辑complexion f (复数 complexions)
延伸阅读
编辑- 查看“complexion”在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法语数字化宝典] 中的释义。
古法语
编辑词源
编辑首次可考于约1120年[1]，借自拉丁语 complexiō。
名词
编辑complexion f (间接格复数 complexions，主格单数 complexion，主格复数 complexions)
参考资料
编辑- ↑ 查看“complexion”在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法语数字化宝典] 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)