英汉词典

brown 基本解释

• adj. 棕色的，褐色的；太阳晒黑的
• vi. 变成褐色
• n. 褐色，棕色
• vt. 使变成褐色
• n. (Brown)人名；(英、意、芬、捷、德、法、西、葡)布朗

brown 词态变化

brown 中文词源

来自PIE *bher, 照耀，发光。词源同bear, 熊。其明亮义见burnish, 擦亮的。

brown 英文词源

brown

brown: [OE] In Old English, brown meant, rather vaguely, ‘dark’; it does not seem to have become a definite colour word until the 13th century. It comes from West and North Germanic *brūnaz, which probably goes back ultimately to the same Indo-European source (*bheros) as bear, etymologically the ‘brown [that is, dark] animal’. An additional meaning of brown in Old and Middle English, shared also by related words such as Old High German brūn, was ‘shining, glistening’, particularly as applied to weapons (it survives in fossilized form in the old ballad Cospatrick, recorded in 1802: ‘my bonny brown sword’); Old French took it over when it borrowed brun from Germanic, and it is the basis of the verb burnir ‘polish’, from which English gets burnish [14].

Another contribution made by French brun to English is the feminine diminutive form brunette [17]. An earlier Old French variant burnete had previously been borrowed by English in the 12th century as burnet, and since the 14th century has been applied to a genus of plants of the rose family. The term burnet moth is first recorded in 1842.
=> bear, brunette, burnish

brown (adj.)

Old English brun "dark, dusky," developing a definite color sense only 13c., from Proto-Germanic *brunaz (cognates: Old Norse brunn, Danish brun, Old Frisian and Old High German brun, Dutch bruin, German braun), from PIE *bher- (3) "shining, brown" (cognates: Lithuanian beras "brown"), related to *bheros "dark animal" (compare beaver, bear (n.), and Greek phrynos "toad," literally "the brown animal").

The Old English word also had a sense of "brightness, shining," preserved only in burnish. The Germanic word was adopted into Romanic (Middle Latin brunus, Italian and Spanish bruno, French brun). Brown Bess, slang name for old British Army flintlock musket, first recorded 1785.

brown (n.)

"brown color," c. 1600, from brown (adj.).

brown (v.)

c. 1300, "to become brown," from brown (adj.). From 1560s as "to make brown." Related: Browned; browning.

brown 词组搭配

brown 英文释义

1. an orange of low brightness and saturation

brown 双语例句

1. The sand martin is a brown bird with white underneath.

崖沙燕是一种褐羽白腹的鸟。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Ernest Brown lives about a dozen blocks from where the riots began.

欧内斯特·布朗住在离骚乱发生处几个街区远的地方。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Ms Brown is still no shoo-in for the November election.

布朗夫人在11月的选举中仍然没有十足的胜算。

来自柯林斯例句

4. We talk in her Belgrade flat, full of heavy old brown furniture.

我们在她位于贝尔格莱德的公寓里进行了交谈，那屋里满是结实的老式棕色家具。

来自柯林斯例句

5. The special cabinet committee comprises Mr Brown, Mr Mandelson, and Mr Straw.

特别内阁委员会包括布朗先生、曼德尔森先生和斯特劳先生。

来自柯林斯例句

brown 实用场景例句

brown eyes

褐色的眼睛

牛津词典

brown bread

黑面包

牛津词典

dark brown shoe polish

深棕色鞋油

牛津词典

a package wrapped in brown paper

用牛皮纸包扎的包裹

牛津词典

(British English)I don't go brown very easily.

我不容易晒黑。

牛津词典

After the summer in Spain, the children were brown as berries .

在西班牙度过了一个夏天之后，孩子们晒得黝黑。

牛津词典

leaves of various shades of brown

深浅不一的棕色叶子

牛津词典

Brown doesn't (= brown clothes do not) suit you.

你不适合穿棕色衣服。

牛津词典

Heat the butter until it browns.

把黄油加热，使之呈棕色。

牛津词典

The grass was browning in patches.

草地一片片地变成褐色。

牛津词典

Brown the onions before adding the meat.

把洋葱炒成褐色，然后放进肉。

牛津词典

By now the passengers were getting browned off with the delay.

此时乘客们对延误已开始感到不满。

牛津词典

...spicy tomato sauce served over a bed of brown rice.

浇在一层糙米上的辣味番茄酱

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Cook for ten minutes until the sugar browns...

熬煮10分钟，直到糖变成褐色。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He browned the chicken in a frying pan.

他用煎锅把鸡肉煎成焦黄色。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...brown bread.

黑面包

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a slim brown man with a speckled turban.

一个戴着花头巾、身材瘦削、棕色皮肤的男子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There were many gorgeous females busy browning themselves.

有许多漂亮的女性忙着晒黑自己。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Her skin was of the fortunate kind that could brown in the sun without burning...

她的皮肤属于那种很幸运的类型，在阳光下无需长时间晒着就能变黑。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I don't want to be really really brown, just have a nice light golden colour.

我不想晒得黝黑，只想晒成一种漂亮的淡金色。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The stairs are decorated in golds and earthy browns.

楼梯油漆成金色和土褐色。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...her deep brown eyes...

她深褐色的眼睛

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Arkansas has seen a 70 % decline in its numbers since 1967.

自1967年以来,这种鸟儿的数量在阿肯萨州已经减少了70%.

期刊摘选

Mr. Brown has held 500 shares in the shipping company.

布朗先生持有该家航运公司的500份股份.

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