Word · Frequency #12898
coloring
食用色素；食品着色剂
a digestible substance used to give color to food
- 1.
An act or process which applies color.
施加颜色的行为或过程。
- 2.
Any substance used to give color.
用于着色的任何物质。
- 3.
The appearance as to color.
颜色的外观。
- 4.
A disguise or discoloration.
伪装或变色。
- 5.
An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
给图的每个顶点指定一种颜色,通常使由边相连的两个顶点颜色不同。
着色；染色；施加颜色的行为或过程。；用于着色的任何物质。；颜色的外观。；伪装或变色。
In use
I added a few drops of red coloring to the frosting to make it pink.
The coloring of the walls took longer than we expected.
Some manufacturers use natural colorings in their candies.
add coloring to sth
coloring 表示‘着色剂、食用色素’时通常为不可数名词。
Add a drop of red coloring to the mixture.
往混合物中加一滴红色着色剂。
use sth as coloring
此处 coloring 指用于改变食物或材料颜色的物质。
You can use beet juice as a natural coloring.
你可以用甜菜汁作天然着色剂。
the coloring of sth
此处 coloring 意为‘色彩、颜色’，指天然外观，不是染色过程。
Connections
Collocations
- food coloring
- 食用色素
- Add a few drops of food coloring to the mixture.在混合物中加几滴食用色素。
- artificial coloring
- 人工色素
- This candy contains no artificial coloring.这种糖果不含人工色素。
- natural coloring
- 天然色素
- Some cheeses get their natural coloring from annatto.有些奶酪的天然色素来自胭脂树籽。
- hair coloring
- 染发
- Hair coloring can damage your hair if done too often.如果太频繁，染发会损伤头发。
- coloring book
- 填色书
- The child sat quietly with a coloring book.那孩子安静地坐着玩填色书。
- fair coloring
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 color（颜色）加 -ing，就像给东西“上颜色”：作名词表示着色动作，或让食物变色的食用色素。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：食品包装与烹饪、美术与手工、日常物品描述 coloring 既指“着色、染色”的动作或过程，也指“食用色素、着色剂”这类物质，日常使用都属于中性词，不区分正式或非正式场合。表示食品着色剂时，多直接说 food coloring；指绘画等上色过程时，通常在美术或手工艺语境中出现。
Pronunciation & Spelling
发音上，discoloring 和 recoloring 与 coloring 真正押韵（重读元音 /ʌ/ 及之后 /ləriŋ/ 相同）；boring、neighboring、favoring、honoring 虽都含 -oring 拼写，听起来并不押韵（分别读作 /ˈbɔːrɪŋ/、/ˈneɪbərɪŋ/、/ˈfeɪvərɪŋ/、/ˈɑːnərɪŋ/）。
Learn the forms together
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