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词组 colourful
释义 colourful
adjective
(of language) robust and lively, some may say offensive UK
  • [A]n old soldier [...] abuses the French in the most colourful language when he hears that Bonaparte means to march on Moscow[.] — Leo Tolstoy translated by Rosemary Edmunds, War and Peace, p. 885, 1957
  • One speaker who became renowned for his “colourful language” (as it was officially described in parliamentary records) was [Australian] Prime Minister Paul Keating. — Adrian Beard, The Language of Politics, p. 110, 2000
  • For a Foreign Office mandarin, it was unusually colourful language [...] Edward Clay, the high commissioner [to Kenya], told his audience that ministers “could hardly expect us not to care when their gluttony causes them to vomit all over our shoes.” — Guardian, 16 July 2004
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