brown
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈbɹaʊ̯n/
美 /ˈbɹaʊ̯n/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
— The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- Black tar heroin.
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A copper coin.
— “To save a journey up the town, / A razor lent here for a brown: / But if you think the price too high, / I beg you won’t the razor try.”
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A brown horse or other animal.
— […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
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A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
— Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
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A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
— The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.
动词 v.
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To become brown.
— Fry the onions until they brown.
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poop.
— i've just browned myself.
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To cook something until it becomes brown.
— Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
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To tan.
— Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
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To make brown or dusky.
— A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
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To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
— It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.
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To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
— the browning of America
形容词 adj.
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Having a brown color/colour.
— But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.
- Gloomy.
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Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; Latino/Latin American
— Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for our passports when we tried to go to their [expletive] party a little over a year ago.[…] The saddest part is that I don’t think they understand why it’s insulting to ask a brown person for a passport.
- Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; of color.
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Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
— I think they sort of realized like, oh, we have Aasif who is a Muslim, an American, brown person, you know, who can sit on that fence between cultures and sort of talk about what it is--what this is from the perspective of being an insider and an outsider at the same time.[…] I think there is in the sort of South Asian, you know, psyche, a kind of adoration of Western ideals and culture that was sort of implanted into us by the British, you know, and this idea that everything that is Western is superior and better than what we have and what India--you know, what is true to our own culture.
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Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
— I came to deeply embrace anti-racism in slow, sustained increments. To do so, I had to embrace my own identity as a Brown person -- and understand my own complicity in white supremacy.[…] I had grown up in an entire Southeast Asian culture that had largely been groomed, indoctrinated and brainwashed into white-centered thinking over some 450 years of colonization by our Western overlords: Spain for almost 400 years, and then the United States of America for nearly 50 years more.
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Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
— Near-synonyms: nongreen, antigreen
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
anti-brown
Arran brown
Asian brown flycatcher
Banks' brown
big brown bat
Bismarck brown
black and brown
Boston brown bread
brownable
brown adipose tissue
brown ale
brown alga
brown ammonia
brown anole
brown argus
brown as a berry
brown asbestos
brownback
brown bag
brown-bag
brown-bagger
brown bagging
brown bag test
brown bar
brown bastard
brown beaksedge
brown bean
brown bear
brown bent
brown bentgrass
Brown Bess
Brown Betty
brown-bill
brownbill
brown-billed scythebill
brown bits
brown bomber
brown boobook
brown bottle flu
brown box
brown box crab
brown bread
brown-brown
brown bullhead
brown butter
brown catshark
brown cheese
brown cloud
brown clover
brown coal
Browncoat
brown coati
brown cow
brown crab
brown creeper
brown dwarf
brown earth
browned off
brown envelope journalism
brown envelope syndrome
brownette
browneye
brown eye
brown-eyed
brown-eyed soul
brown-eyed Susan
brownface
brown falcon
brown fat
brownfield
brown gargle
Brown George
brown goods
brown goshawk
brown-haired
brown hairstreak
brown hare
brown hawk
brownhead
brown hemp
brown heroin
brown holland
brown honeyeater
brown hydrogen
brown hyena
brownie
brownification
brown inca
brownish
brown job
brown joke
brown jolly
brown king crab
brown kingfisher
brown lacewing
brown leaf
brown leaf spot
brown lung
brownly
brown mahogany
brown marmorated stink bug
brown mint
brown mustard
brownness
brownnose
brown-nose
brown-noser
brown noser
brown note
brown ocean effect
brown ochre
brown onion
brown oriole
brown out
brownout
brown-out
brown owl
brown palm civet
brown paper
brown paper bag party
brown paper bag test
brown patch
brown pelican
brown-point shield skin longirostris
brown pound
brown powder
brown power
brown priest
brownprint
brown rat
brown recluse
brown recluse spider
brown rice
brown rock chat
brown rosin paper
brown rot
brown-rumped minivet
brown sahib
brown sauce
brown seaweed
brown shark
Brown Shirt
Brownshirt
brown shoe
brown shower
brown shrike
brown shrimp
brownskin
brown snake
brown soft scale
brown spar
brown spot
brownspotted
brown stew
brown stew chicken
brown sticker
brownstone
brown study
brown sugar
Brown Swiss
brown-tailed rock chat
brown-tail moth
brown tang
brown teal
brown thrasher
brown thumb
brown tinamou
browntop
brown trout
brown up
brownware
brownwash
brown water
brown-water navy
brown Windsor soup
brown woolly monkey
brownwort
browny
bush brown
Cappagh brown
Cappah brown
Cassel brown
chocolate-brown
code brown
Colorado brown stain
common brown
common brown cup
common brown earwig
De Kay's brown snake
do it brown
do it up brown
do someone brown
done brown
embrown
garnet brown
golden brown
golden-brown alga
great brown kingfisher
hair-brown
hash brown
hash-brown
hashed brown
hash browns
hashbrowns
hash-browns
hashed browns
Himalayan brown bear
Hobart brown
hot brown
indigo brown
Kassel brown
king brown
King Island brown thornbill
light brown apple moth
little brown bat
little brown dove
little brown fucking machine
little brown job
little brown jug
Mars brown
meadow brown
Mexican brown
mono-brown
mousy brown
mummy brown
Natal brown
nigger-brown
no brown in town
nonbrown
northern brown argus
northern brown bandicoot
southern brown bandicoot
North Island brown kiwi
nut-brown
nut-brown butter
Okarito brown kiwi
overbrown
plain brown wrapper
prebrowned
Pullman brown
red-brown
reddish-brown
red-green-brown alliance
saddle brown
Sanford's brown
Sanford's brown lemur
shit-brown
shouldered brown
small brown crow
Spanish brown
spice brown
stately bush brown
sub-brown dwarf
Sudan brown
sunbrowned
take someone to brown town
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
toffee-brown
tree brown
unbrown
unbrowned
Vandyke brown
wall brown
wood brown
词源
词源 1
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
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