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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- yellow [ 'jεlo] [ 'jeləu]
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- 1. adjective 黄（色）的
- 2. adjective （因年代久远，旧纸）泛黄的
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3.
adjective
皮肤黄色的
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4.
adjective
[American English]
[verbal]
懦怯的，胆怯的，胆小的
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5.
adjective
[American English]
（某些报刊）耸人听闻的，低级趣味的
- 6. noun 黄色
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7.
noun
黄色颜料（或染料）
- yellow ultramarine
- 黄色颜料
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8.
noun
蛋黄
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9.
noun
[botany]
[复数形态时]黄化病
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10.
noun
[复数形态时]（尤指农场畜牲）黄疸
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11.
vt.
（使）变黄；（使）发黄
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12.
vi.
（使）变黄；（使）发黄
Collins English-English Dictionary
- yellow ['jεləυ]
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1.
n
any of a group of colours that vary in saturation but have the same hue. They lie in the approximate wavelength range 585--575 nanometres. Yellow is the complementary colour of blue and with cyan and magenta forms a set of primary colours
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2.
n
a pigment or dye of or producing these colours
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3.
n
yellow cloth or clothing
- dressed in yellow
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4.
n
the yolk of an egg
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5.
n
a yellow ball in snooker, etc
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6.
n
any of a group of pieridine butterflies the males of which have yellow or yellowish wings, esp the clouded yellows (Colias spp.) and the brimstone
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7.
adj
of the colour yellow
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8.
adj
yellowish in colour or having parts or marks that are yellowish
- yellow jasmine
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9.
adj
having a yellowish skin; Mongoloid
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10.
adj
[informal]
cowardly or afraid
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11.
adj
offensively sensational, as a cheap newspaper (esp in the phrase yellow press)
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12.
vb
to make or become yellow
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13.
vb
See also yellows
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14.
vb
[Etymology]
Old English geolu; related to Old Saxon, Old High German gelo, Old Norse gulr, Latin helvus
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1.
n
any of a group of colours that vary in saturation but have the same hue. They lie in the approximate wavelength range 585--575 nanometres. Yellow is the complementary colour of blue and with cyan and magenta forms a set of primary colours
Examples
- the yellow-bellied sapsucker
- 黄肚皮的美洲啄木鸟 → bellied
- Green results from blending blue and yellow.
- 绿色(或青色)是由蓝黄两色调合而成。 → yellow
- yellow fever
- 黄热病 → fever
- yellow ultramarine
- 黄色颜料 → ultramarine
- mix blue with yellow
- 把蓝色与黄色混在一起 → with
- The leaves were turning yellow.
- 那时叶子正在变黄。 → yellow
- The blue stick is longer than the yellow one.
- 蓝色的木棍比黄色的长。 → yellow
- My T-shirt was beginning to turn yellow.
- 我的T恤衫开始变黄了。 → yellow
- I love when the sun bathes the square in yellow and orange colors.
- 我非常喜爱金黄色的阳光笼罩广场的美景。 → bathe
- I really like Autumn, all the leaves are yellow and red.
- 我非常喜欢秋天，所有叶子都变成了黄色或者红色。 → autumn
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