| 单词 | to change hue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto change (one's) hue (a) to change (one's) hue [compare Middle French, French changer couleur (first half of the 15th cent.)] : (of a person) to undergo an alteration in the colour of one's complexion in response to something which has happened, been said, etc.; spec. to turn pale or red. Cf. to change colour at colour n.1 Phrases 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2184 (MED) Al chaungede hure hew & mod. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 4210 Soone bigon he chaunge hew. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 93 Withe þis þe knycht al changit hew. c1550 Clariodus (1830) i. 813 Clariodus..changit hew alyte. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg4v All suddeinly abasht shee chaunged hew, And with sterne horror backward gan to start. 1679 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Troades iv. 104 She changes hue, A show'r of Tears does her pale Cheeks bedew. 1720 J. Gay Poems 330 She frequent look'd behind, and chang'd her hue. 1853 E. M. Stewart Aubrey Conyers xiii. 155 It was the terrible draught..which I gave her, which had changed her hue so much. 1920 C. W. Stork tr. V. von Heidenstam Charles Men II. 256 Görtz's very fair and delicate countenance changed hue. 2012 M. Hofmann tr. M. Fallada Small Circus iii. 450 ‘The whole of the working class is squarely behind you.’ Frerksen changes hue. < as lemmas |
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