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单词 to change colour
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to change colour (also †colours)
P1. to change colour (also †colours): (of a person) to have one's complexion alter in colour in response to something which has happened, been said, etc.; spec. (a) to turn pale; to have the colour drain from one's cheeks; (b) to turn red; to blush; to become flushed with anger, exertion, etc. [Compare Middle French, French changer couleur (1378), muer couleur (c1373).]
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > change colour
to change (one's) huec1380
to change colour (also colours)a1387
to change countenance (also face)c1425
change1600
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [verb (intransitive)] > change colour
to change (one's) huec1380
to change coloura1387
to change countenance (also face)c1425
change1600
to turn (one's) colour1604
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 123 (MED) Þat welle chaunge[þ] hewe and colors[L. colorem mutans] foure siþes a ȝere.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7308 (MED) Colour he chaungeþ sumdel for drede.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 550 She changed coloure and blussyd as rudy as a rose.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccl. 795 The duke a lytell chaunged colour.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 13v The gentlewomen were strooke into such a quandarie with this sodayne chaunge, that they all chaunged coulour.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iv. sig. G4 Step to her sir, see how she changes colour.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 5 So apprehensive of the danger, that he changed colours.
a1742 T. Story Jrnl. of Life (1747) 165 She began, in a short Time to change Colours, and that was followed with gentle Tears.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. vii. 226 The knight changed colour and grinded his teeth with rage.
1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xvi. 252 Her eye glanced on something which made her change colour.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xiii. 336 Hurree was no game-shot,—the snick of a trigger made him change colour.
1994 T. C. Boyle Without Hero (1995) 92 He changed color twice—from parchment white to royal pomodoro—with the rush of blood surging through his congested arteries.
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