Word · Frequency #11275
hue
着色；染上颜色
to take on color; to become colored
不及物用法，指物体自身变成彩色。
- 1.
take on color or become colored
着色或变色
- 2.
suffuse with color
使充满色彩
给…着色；使染上颜色；着色或变色；使充满色彩
In use
The evening light hued the white walls with a soft gold.
These candles will hue the room in a warm orange glow.
The old photograph has hued yellow with age.
In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey
hue sth with sth
hue 作及物动词意为“给……着色”，常用于书面或文学语境，不如 dye 或 color 常用。
The artist hued the fabric with natural dyes.
艺术家用天然染料给织物着色。
hue + colour
hue 作不及物动词意为“变成某种颜色”，相当于 turn + colour，多用于文学性描写。
The leaves hued orange in autumn.
秋天树叶变成了橙色。
Verb forms
base hue · third person hues · -ing hueing · past hued · past participle hued
作动词时较少见，常表示“使…带上色彩”或“呈现颜色”，多用于文学描写。
Connections
Collocations
- brightly hued
- 色彩鲜艳的
- The market was full of brightly hued fabrics.市场上满是色彩鲜艳的布料。
- softly hued
- 色彩柔和的
- She wore a softly hued scarf.她系着一条色彩柔和的围巾。
- hued with
- 染上…颜色；带有…色调
- The mountains were hued with golden light at sunset.日落时群山染上了金色的光芒。
- rose-hued
- 玫瑰色的
- The rose-hued clouds drifted across the evening sky.玫瑰色的云彩在傍晚的天空中飘动。
Synonyms
- color
- 给…着色；使变色 · 最常用、最自然的日常动词，可及物也可不及物，语域比 hue 更中性；如 color the picture / The leaves start to color.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 hue 当作“颜色”来记，作动词就是给物体染上颜色：像画笔蘸取 hue 为画布上色。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：文学描写、正式文本 hue 作动词时多用于文学或正式语境，表示“着色”或“使充满色彩”；日常口语中很少见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Genuine rhymes with hue /hju/: cue /kju/, due /dju/, new /nju/, and view /vju/ all share the /ju/ vowel (with the /j/ sound). Note: blue /blu/ and true /tru/ look like the same -ue spelling but have plain /u/, no /j/, so they do not rhyme with hue.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.