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单词 colour-blind
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Definition of colour-blind in English:

colour-blind

(US color-blind)
adjective ˈkʌləblʌɪndˈkələrblaɪnd
  • 1Unable to distinguish certain colours, or (rarely in humans) any colors at all.

    See protanopia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The suits are distinguished only by colour, so the cards may be difficult for colour-blind players to use.
    • I'm red-green color-blind; I couldn't see the laser sights on the fixed turrets well enough to actually dodge them.
    • ‘He may be colour-blind,’ my doctor thought out loud.
    • The two colours of the discs were green and red - Adam is partially colour-blind, and guess which two colours he can't tell the difference between?
    • A doctor of my acquaintance did not realise that he was colour-blind until he attempted to fail aircraft pilots in the RAF on colour vision tests.
    • I mean, a colour-blind person doesn't know that he's missing a few shades unless he does the tests.
    • Nocturnal species can discriminate flowers at starlight intensities when humans and honeybees are colour-blind.
    • Now you have to understand, my dad not only waited till the last minute to make me a costume, but was also acutely colour-blind, with the worst creative sense I've ever seen.
    • Also, I'm colour-blind, which got us in a lot of trouble.
    • He wanted to be a fighter pilot but failed the medical because the man with the bluest eyes in cinema is colour-blind.
    • And sound was perhaps a more important component of that image than vision, colour-blind and short-sighted as he was.
    • Bulls are colour-blind, so it is yet another myth that they are enraged by red shades; they react only to the fervent cape-waving.
    • People can be born color-blind, or they may develop the condition over time. The most common form of color blindness is an inherited condition that affects boys much more often than girls.
  • 2Not influenced by racial prejudice.

    a colour-blind society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A degree of short-term separateness and colour-consciousness is needed to achieve the long-term goal of an integrated and colour-blind society.
    • Connerly believes that if the state stops gathering data on race, ethnicity and ancestry, California will become a more color-blind society.
    • Still, as long as the agreements existed and were enforceable in American courts, they were an insult to the concept of a color-blind society, and a burr in the side of many upwardly mobile African Americans.
    • Someday, we hope, the idea of a diversity program will be seen as a quaint and unnecessary vestige because we will have become the color-blind society of Martin Luther King's famous dream.
    • I've heard people say that every mixed person is one step closer to a color-blind society.
    • Even as some Americans hold up the ideal of a color-blind society, research reveals that pejorative racial stereotyping and subconscious negative racial bias persist among white Americans.
    • Too bad they ignore that phenomenon while they style themselves as advocates of a color-blind American society.
    • A half-century ago, Southern Democrats campaigned by opposing color-blind laws, stirring up racial fears, and silencing those who opposed them.
    • Native students can be helped through a colour-blind policy that takes into account the problems they are most likely to face.
    • The political ideology of the Reagan Administration reflected a desire to move towards a color-blind society in which race was a neutral issue in public policy formulation.
    • After more than 30 years of work on the psychology of racism and antiracism, I continue to be mystified by how difficult it is for many to see the falsehoods of the color-blind society.
    • Capitalism is colour-blind and gender-blind, and does not discriminate based on religious belief or sexual orientation.
    • All of the people in this documentary are strong: not only are they African-Canadians living in a society that likes to pretend it is colour-blind, they are gay and they dress up as women for a living.
    • He believes that only ending racial categorizations will lead to a color-blind society where people aren't seen through the lens of race.
    • The vast, vast majority of conservatives today believe fervently in King's ideal of a color-blind society.
    • Like most liberals, he has no vision of a color-blind society and nothing to offer African Americans other than permanent entitlement programs.
    • We should become a colour-blind society.
    • Clearly he was saying that, as we seek a color-blind society, we must make up for what we have done to those of color.

Derivatives

  • colour blindness

  • noun ˈkʌlə ˌblʌɪndnəsˈkələrˌblaɪndnəs
    • The diagnosis of color blindness should in no way prevent you from acquiring your pilot's license and, with a little luck, shouldn't stand in the way of pursuing a career as a commercial pilot.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The most common form of color blindness is an inherited condition that affects boys much more often than girls.
      • Accidents or strokes that damage the retina or affect particular areas of the brain can cause colour blindness.
      • It is clearly critical to screen for colour blindness at entry to professions where coloured signals are used - aviation and navigation, as well as train driving.
      • Two of our observers suffered from degrees of red/green colour blindness and had difficulty spotting these colours, particularly in intermediate light conditions.
 
 

Definition of color-blind in US English:

color-blind

(British colour-blind)
adjectiveˈkələrblaɪndˈkələrblīnd
  • 1Unable to distinguish certain colors, or (rarely in humans) any colors at all.

    See protanopia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The suits are distinguished only by colour, so the cards may be difficult for colour-blind players to use.
    • Also, I'm colour-blind, which got us in a lot of trouble.
    • Now you have to understand, my dad not only waited till the last minute to make me a costume, but was also acutely colour-blind, with the worst creative sense I've ever seen.
    • Nocturnal species can discriminate flowers at starlight intensities when humans and honeybees are colour-blind.
    • I mean, a colour-blind person doesn't know that he's missing a few shades unless he does the tests.
    • The two colours of the discs were green and red - Adam is partially colour-blind, and guess which two colours he can't tell the difference between?
    • People can be born color-blind, or they may develop the condition over time. The most common form of color blindness is an inherited condition that affects boys much more often than girls.
    • I'm red-green color-blind; I couldn't see the laser sights on the fixed turrets well enough to actually dodge them.
    • Bulls are colour-blind, so it is yet another myth that they are enraged by red shades; they react only to the fervent cape-waving.
    • ‘He may be colour-blind,’ my doctor thought out loud.
    • A doctor of my acquaintance did not realise that he was colour-blind until he attempted to fail aircraft pilots in the RAF on colour vision tests.
    • He wanted to be a fighter pilot but failed the medical because the man with the bluest eyes in cinema is colour-blind.
    • And sound was perhaps a more important component of that image than vision, colour-blind and short-sighted as he was.
  • 2Not influenced by racial prejudice.

    a color-blind society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Still, as long as the agreements existed and were enforceable in American courts, they were an insult to the concept of a color-blind society, and a burr in the side of many upwardly mobile African Americans.
    • Someday, we hope, the idea of a diversity program will be seen as a quaint and unnecessary vestige because we will have become the color-blind society of Martin Luther King's famous dream.
    • Even as some Americans hold up the ideal of a color-blind society, research reveals that pejorative racial stereotyping and subconscious negative racial bias persist among white Americans.
    • Like most liberals, he has no vision of a color-blind society and nothing to offer African Americans other than permanent entitlement programs.
    • Clearly he was saying that, as we seek a color-blind society, we must make up for what we have done to those of color.
    • The vast, vast majority of conservatives today believe fervently in King's ideal of a color-blind society.
    • After more than 30 years of work on the psychology of racism and antiracism, I continue to be mystified by how difficult it is for many to see the falsehoods of the color-blind society.
    • I've heard people say that every mixed person is one step closer to a color-blind society.
    • He believes that only ending racial categorizations will lead to a color-blind society where people aren't seen through the lens of race.
    • A degree of short-term separateness and colour-consciousness is needed to achieve the long-term goal of an integrated and colour-blind society.
    • Native students can be helped through a colour-blind policy that takes into account the problems they are most likely to face.
    • A half-century ago, Southern Democrats campaigned by opposing color-blind laws, stirring up racial fears, and silencing those who opposed them.
    • Connerly believes that if the state stops gathering data on race, ethnicity and ancestry, California will become a more color-blind society.
    • The political ideology of the Reagan Administration reflected a desire to move towards a color-blind society in which race was a neutral issue in public policy formulation.
    • We should become a colour-blind society.
    • Capitalism is colour-blind and gender-blind, and does not discriminate based on religious belief or sexual orientation.
    • Too bad they ignore that phenomenon while they style themselves as advocates of a color-blind American society.
    • All of the people in this documentary are strong: not only are they African-Canadians living in a society that likes to pretend it is colour-blind, they are gay and they dress up as women for a living.
 
 
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