"Yellow" is a color and can also be a verb meaning to turn yellow, often due to age. It can describe the color of lemons or butter and is also used informally and disapprovingly to mean cowardly. The word can also be used as slang to refer to people of East Asian descent.
[COLOUR 颜色词]黄;黄色 Something that is yellow is the colour of lemons, butter, or the middle part of an egg.
The walls have been painted bright yellow...
墙壁漆成了亮黄色。
Kim opted for cooler blues and yellows in the master bedroom.
金为主卧室挑选了偏冷色调的蓝色和黄色。
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[VERB 动词](通常因陈旧)变黄,发黄 If something yellows, it becomes yellow in colour, often because it is old.
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The flesh of his cheeks seemed to have yellowed...
他似乎有些面色发黄。
She sat scanning the yellowing pages.
她坐着浏览发黄的书页。
Oxford
yel·low★/ˈjeləʊ; NAmEˈjeloʊ/
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yellowyellowsyellowedyellowingyelloweryellowestadjective★(yel·lower,yel·lowest)1★having the colour of lemons or butter 黄的;黄色的◆pale yellow flowers淡黄色的花朵◆a bright yellow waterproof jacket鲜黄色的防水夹克2( taboo) an offensive word used to describe the light brown skin of people from some E Asian countries (轻蔑语)黄皮肤的,黄色人种的3( informal,disapproving) easily frightened 胆怯的SYN
cowardly
▶yel·low·ness/ˈjeləʊnəs; NAmEˈjeloʊnəs/noun[uncountable , singular ]noun★[uncountable , countable ]the colour of lemons or butter 黄;黄色◆She was dressed in yellow.她穿着黄衣服。◆the reds and yellows of the trees红色和黄色的树叶verb[intransitive , transitive ]yellow(sth) to become yellow; to make sth become yellow (使)变黄yel·low/ˈjeləʊ; NAmEˈjeloʊ/yel·low·ness/ˈjeləʊnəs; NAmEˈjeloʊnəs/
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yellow1 adjective
yellow2 noun
yellow3 verb
yellowyel‧low1 /ˈjeləʊ $ -loʊ/ ●●●S2W3 adjective
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1having the colour of butter or the middle part of an egg: yellow flowers →
chrome yellow
, → lemon yellow
at lemon2
, → primrose yellow
at primrose(2)
2 not polite an offensive way of describing the skin colour of people from parts of Asia3 (also yellow-bellied) informal not braveSYN cowardly