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相信很多女生都喜歡pink ，pink這個英語單詞表示的是什么意思呢？
adj.粉紅色的
n.粉紅色
英 [p??k] 美 [p??k]
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.
She carried a spray of pink roses.
她拿著一簇粉紅色的玫瑰花。
Write your name and address on this pink slip.
在這張粉紅色紙條上寫下你的姓名和地址。
The sunset has tinted the sky with pink.
落日把天空染成了粉紅色。
Pink is her favorite color.
粉紅色是她最喜歡的顏色。
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。
A glass of red wine keeps you in the pink 一杯紅酒有益健康。
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。
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。
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。
She went pink again as she remembered her mistake 想起自己的錯誤，她又臉紅了。
He waited some 80 to 100 yards from the big pink villa 他在距離那座粉紅色的大別墅約80到100碼的地方等候著。
Vivid red and pink geraniums cascade over my balcony 鮮艷的紅色和粉色的天竺葵從我家的陽臺上直掛下去。
An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway 一位面頰緋紅、一副鄉下貴族打扮的老婦人出現在門口。
"I"m tickled pink," said Jimmy after his wife gave birth “我太開心了，”吉米在妻子分娩后說。
The sea would turn pale pink and the sky blood red 大海會變成淺粉色，天空則變成血紅色。
She wore a large pink boa around her neck 她脖子上圍著一條粉色長羽毛圍巾。
He was wearing, astonishingly, a frilly pink apron over shirt and trousers 他穿得很奇怪，襯衫和褲子外面套著件鑲褶邊的粉紅圍裙。
Mollie confesses she is rather partial to pink 莫莉承認她偏愛粉紅色。
Her pink dress billowed out around her 她粉紅色的連衣裙鼓了起來。
Judi"s favourite colour is pink 朱迪最喜歡的顏色是粉紅色。
Joe, Pink, and Booker howled with delight 喬、平克和布克高興得放聲大笑。
She went bright pink with embarrassment 她尷尬得滿臉緋紅。
His face was a queer pink colour 他滿臉奇怪的粉紅色。
Many Chinese adults dress their children in brilliant orange, red and pink 很多中國的成人給他們的孩子穿鮮艷的橘黃色 、 紅色和粉色的衣服。
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