pink
英 [p??k]
美[p??k]
- n. 粉紅色；化身，典范；石竹花；頭面人物
- vt. 扎，刺，戳；使…變粉紅色；使…面紅耳赤
- vi. 變粉紅色
- adj. 粉紅的；比較激進的；石竹科的；臉色發紅的
- n. (Pink)人名；(英、德、匈)平克；(法)潘克
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詞態變化
復數:?pinks;第三人稱單數:?pinks;過去式:?pinked;過去分詞:?pinked;現在分詞:?pinking;比較級:?pinker;最高級:?pinkest;名詞:?pinkness;
中文詞源
pink 刺，扎，打孔，香石竹，粉紅色，左傾的，與同性戀有關的
詞源不確定，可能來自中古法語piquer,刺，扎，穿透，詞源同pike,pick.或來自拉丁語pungere,刺，扎，穿透，詞源同puncture.引申詞義打孔，使成鋸齒狀，后用于指香石竹花，因其花瓣凹凸不平，有如鋸齒而得名，因這種花多開粉紅色花朵，后引申詞義粉紅色的。后引申俚語義同情共產黨的，政治左傾的，同時，也用于指娘娘腔，同性戀。
英文詞源
- pink
- pink: English has three distinct words pink. The colour term [18] appears to have come, by a bizarre series of twists, from an early Dutch word meaning ‘small’. This was pinck (source also of the colloquial English pinkie ‘little finger’ [19]). It was used in the phrase pinck oogen, literally ‘small eyes’, hence ‘half-closed eyes’, which was borrowed into English and partially translated as pink eyes.
It has been speculated that this was a name given to a plant of the species Dianthus, which first emerged in the abbreviated form pink in the 16th century. Many of these plants have pale red flowers, and so by the 18th century pink was being used for ‘pale red’. Pink ‘pierce’ [14], now preserved mainly in pinking shears, is probably of Low German origin (Low German has pinken ‘peck’).
And pink (of an engine) ‘make knocking sounds’ [20] is presumably imitative in origin. - pink (n., adj.)
- 1570s, common name of Dianthus, a garden plant of various colors, of unknown origin. Its use for "pale rose color" first recorded 1733 (pink-coloured is recorded from 1680s), from one of the colors of the flowers. The plant name is perhaps from pink (v.) via notion of "perforated" petals, or from Dutch pink "small" (see pinkie), from the term pinck oogen "half-closed eyes," literally "small eyes," which was borrowed into English (1570s) and may have been used as a name for Dianthus, which sometimes has pale red flowers.
The flower meaning led (by 1590s) to a figurative use for "the flower" or finest example of anything (as in Mercutio's "Nay, I am the very pinck of curtesie," Rom. & Jul. II.iv.61). Political noun sense "person perceived as left of center but not entirely radical (i.e. red)" is attested by 1927, but the image dates to at least 1837. Pink slip "discharge notice" is first recorded 1915. To see pink elephants "hallucinate from alcoholism" first recorded 1913 in Jack London's "John Barleycorn." - pink (v.)
- c. 1200, pungde "pierce, stab," later (early 14c.) "make holes in; spur a horse," of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Romanic stem that also yielded French piquer, Spanish picar (see pike (n.2)). Or perhaps from Old English pyngan and directly from Latin pungere "to prick, pierce" (see pungent). Surviving mainly in pinking shears.
雙語例句
- 1. He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.
- 他正拿著一塊布，布上粉紅色的水滴落在地板上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A glass of red wine keeps you in the pink.
- 一杯紅酒有益健康。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Businesses are now more aware of the importance of the "pink pound".
- 現在商家更加意識到同性戀族群消費力、即所謂“粉紅英鎊”的重要性。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Mr. Long was now cutting himself a piece of the pink cake.
- 朗先生正在給自己切一塊粉色蛋糕。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. She was wearing a flimsy pink dress that streamed out behind her.
- 她穿的那件輕薄的粉紅色連衣裙在身后飄舞。
來自柯林斯例句