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palette n.调色板 (1) 他提起画笔和调色板。(2) 生活是调色板,每个人自己在上面加上颜色。 The meaning of the word palette has extended beyond actual colors to include figurative colors. A musician can use a palette of tones and modes. Either way it is a limited selection from all things available. Don't confuse this word with the homophone palate which refers to your sense of taste. Both words come to English through Old French but have different Latin roots.

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英 ['pælət] 美 ['pælət] (1) He picked his brushes and palette.(2) Life is a palette; you put colors on it. A palette is a range of colors. It is also the board that artists use to hold and mix paint. Picture Picasso in his blue period: He is holding a palette on which you see a limited palette of blue tones. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]调色板 A palette is a flat piece of wood or plastic on which an artist mixes paints. 2[N-COUNT 可数名词]（画家使用的）一组颜色，色彩范围 You can refer to the range of colours that are used by a particular artist or group of artists as their palette.   [usu sing]David Fincher paints from a palette consisting almost exclusively of grey and mud brown.戴维·芬彻几乎只用灰色和土褐色作画。

英语单词	palette
英美音标	英 ['pælət] 美 ['pælət]
中文释义	n.调色板
英语例句	(1) He picked his brushes and palette. (2) Life is a palette; you put colors on it.
中文例句	(1) 他提起画笔和调色板。 (2) 生活是调色板,每个人自己在上面加上颜色。
vocabulary简明	A palette is a range of colors. It is also the board that artists use to hold and mix paint. Picture Picasso in his blue period: He is holding a palette on which you see a limited palette of blue tones.
vocabulary扩展	The meaning of the word palette has extended beyond actual colors to include figurative colors. A musician can use a palette of tones and modes. Either way it is a limited selection from all things available. Don't confuse this word with the homophone palate which refers to your sense of taste. Both words come to English through Old French but have different Latin roots.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]调色板 A palette is a flat piece of wood or plastic on which an artist mixes paints. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（画家使用的）一组颜色，色彩范围 You can refer to the range of colours that are used by a particular artist or group of artists as their palette. [usu sing] David Fincher paints from a palette consisting almost exclusively of grey and mud brown. 戴维·芬彻几乎只用灰色和土褐色作画。

Palette Colors Range Artists Blue Limited Word N Count