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complexion

參見：complexión 和 complex ion

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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)

  1. (弃用，醫學) 体液学说中，4种体液所构成的“气质”
    • Module:User:Hzy980512/quote第2635行Lua错误：attempt to call field 'shallowcopy' (a nil value)
    • 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）肤色，肤质
    a rugged complexion
    粗糙的肤质
    a sunburnt complexion
    晒黑的面部
  3. (比喻義) 外貌，外观
    • 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.
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
  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.
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
  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.

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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) 给...某种颜色，给...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.
      （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

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古典借詞，源自拉丁語 complexiō。

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complexion f (複數 complexions)

  1. 体质
    近義詞：tempérament、constitution

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首次可考于约1120年[1]，借自拉丁語 complexiō。

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

  1. (醫學) 体液学说中，4种体液所构成的“气质”

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  1. ↑ 查看“complexion”在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法语数字化宝典] 中的释义。
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