complexion

參見：complexión 和 complex ion

英語

其他形式

• complection (棄用)

詞源

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

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /kəmˈplɛkʃən/

• （通用美式）音頻：

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• 韻部：-ɛkʃən
• 斷字：com‧plex‧ion

名詞

complexion (複數 complexions)

1. (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, 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. […]

2. （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. […], 第 III 卷, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，第 28 頁:

     "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 頁:

     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. (比喻義) 外貌，外觀
   • 1910, Bernard Capes, Why Did He Do It?，第 207 頁:

     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. 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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5. (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.

近義詞

• 參見Thesaurus:countenance

相關詞彙

• complect
• complex
• complexional

動詞

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)

1. (及物) 給...某種顏色，給...上色
   • 2003, Leland Krauth, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations，第 118 頁:

     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

• 「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

法語

詞源

古典借詞，源自拉丁語 complexiō。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /kɔ̃.plɛk.sjɔ̃/

• 音頻：

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名詞

complexion f (複數 complexions)

1. 體質

   近義詞：tempérament、constitution

延伸閱讀

• 查看「complexion」在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法語數位化寶典] 中的釋義。

古法語

詞源

首次可考於約1120年，借自拉丁語 complexiō。

名詞

complexion f (間接格複數 complexions，主格單數 complexion，主格複數 complexions)

1. (醫學) 體液學說中，4種體液所構成的「氣質」

參考資料

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