2021年雅思词汇每日学：Colors/Colours

What is the difference betwen Color and Colour?
Color和Colour的区别是什么?
Both words mean the same thing and its spelling depends on the country where the word is written.
这两个词的意思相同，它们的拼写是源于不同国家的书写习惯。
The word Color is used in United States.
Coloe用于美国。
The word Colour is used in the rest of the English-speaking countries (England, Australia, NZ etc.)
Colour适用于其他英语国家，包括英国、澳大利亚、新西兰等国。
The more common colours in English are: black, brown, geay/grey, white, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green.
英语种常见的颜色有：黑色、棕色、灰色、白色、黄色、橙色、红色、粉红色、紫色、蓝色、绿色。
What is the difference betwen Gray and Grey?
Gray和Grey的区别是什么?
The same as with the difference between color and colour, it depends on the country.
这两个词的区别跟color 和 colour一样，用于不同国家。
The word Gray is used in United States.
Gray用于美国。
The word Grey is used in the rest of the English-speaking countries (England, Australia, NZ etc.)
Grey用于其他英语国家，包括英国、澳大利亚、新西兰等国。
Word order with colours 颜色词的顺序：
There are three ways that you can use a colour in a sentence to describe something:
在一句话中用颜色词描述某事有3种方式：
1. To Be + Colour. e.g. My car is blue.
To Be + 颜色.例如：我的车是蓝色的。
2. Colour + Noun. e.g. The blue car is mine.
Colour + Noun. 例如：这个蓝色的车是我的。
3. Colour is the Noun. e.g. Blue is the colour of my car.
Colour is the Noun.例如：蓝色是我的车的颜色。
Did you know that, because colours give us more information about a person or a thing, they are adjectives in English?
颜色可以向我们提供更多有关一个人或一件事的信息， 因此这些颜色词在英语中是形容词。
Light - Dark - Bright
浅色、深色、亮色
Light is the opposite of Dark.
Light的反义词是Dark.
Bright: a strong colour that is easy to see.
亮色：一种很容易看见的颜色。
• Helen has dark green eyes. Helen有深绿色的眼睛。
• His light grey hair made him look very distinguished. 他浅灰色的头发让他看起来很与众不同。
The words Light, Dark and Bright are placed before the colour. Light, Dark 和 Bright这3个词通常放在颜色词之前。
Colours + ISH
If you are not exactly sure how to describe a colour, we normally use the suffix -ish.
如果你不知道怎样描述一个颜色，可以在颜色词后加后缀：-ish。
e.g. Greenish (= approximately green but not exactly green)
• The sunset is a beautiful pinkish-purplish colour today. 今天的夕阳粉色中又带点紫色。
• His shirt is lightish blue in colour. 他的衬衫是浅蓝色的。
Typical Things of each Colour 每种颜色的代表物品
Red: Strawberry, Rose, Fire engine, Blood, Heart 红色：草莓，玫瑰，消防车，血液，心脏
Orange: Pumpkin, Carrot, Basketball 橙色：南瓜，胡萝卜，篮球
Yellow: Cheese, Sun, Butter, Lemon 黄色：奶酪，太阳，黄油，柠檬
Green: Grass, Lettuce, Frog, Leaf, Lizard 绿色：青草，生菜，青蛙，树叶，蜥蜴
Blue: Sky, Ocean, Blueberry, Whale 蓝色：天空，海洋，蓝莓，鲸鱼
Black: Bat, Night, Tire (tyre), Fly 黑色：蝙蝠，夜晚，轮胎，苍蝇
White: Paper, Sugar, Milk, Snow, Sheep 白色：纸，糖，牛奶，雪，羊
Pink: Pig, Tongue, Cotton candy (Candy floss) 粉色：猪，舌头，棉花糖
Brown: Wood, Cigar, Earth, Horse 棕色：木头，雪茄，土地，马
Grey / Gray: Rock,Dust, Mouse, Elephant 灰色：石头，粉尘，老鼠，大象
Purple: Bruise, Grapes 紫色：擦伤，葡萄