What is the difference betwen Color and Colour?
Color和Colour的區(qū)別是什么?
Both words mean the same thing and its spelling depends on the country where the word is written.
這兩個詞的意思相同，它們的拼寫是源于不同國家的書寫習慣。
The word Color is used in United States.
Coloe用于美國。
The word Colour is used in the rest of the English-speaking countries (England, Australia, NZ etc.)
Colour適用于其他英語國家，包括英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭等國。
The more common colours in English are: black, brown, geay/grey, white, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green.
英語種常見的顏色有：黑色、棕色、灰色、白色、黃色、橙色、紅色、粉紅色、紫色、藍色、綠色。
What is the difference betwen Gray and Grey?
Gray和Grey的區(qū)別是什么?
The same as with the difference between color and colour, it depends on the country.
這兩個詞的區(qū)別跟color 和 colour一樣，用于不同國家。
The word Gray is used in United States.
Gray用于美國。
The word Grey is used in the rest of the English-speaking countries (England, Australia, NZ etc.)
Grey用于其他英語國家，包括英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭等國。
Word order with colours 顏色詞的順序：
There are three ways that you can use a colour in a sentence to describe something:
在一句話中用顏色詞描述某事有3種方式：
1. To Be + Colour. e.g. My car is blue.
To Be + 顏色.例如：我的車是藍色的。
2. Colour + Noun. e.g. The blue car is mine.
Colour + Noun. 例如：這個藍色的車是我的。
3. Colour is the Noun. e.g. Blue is the colour of my car.
Colour is the Noun.例如：藍色是我的車的顏色。
Did you know that, because colours give us more information about a person or a thing, they are adjectives in English?
顏色可以向我們提供更多有關一個人或一件事的信息， 因此這些顏色詞在英語中是形容詞。
Light - Dark - Bright
淺色、深色、亮色
Light is the opposite of Dark.
Light的反義詞是Dark.
Bright: a strong colour that is easy to see.
亮色：一種很容易看見的顏色。
• Helen has dark green eyes. Helen有深綠色的眼睛。
• His light grey hair made him look very distinguished. 他淺灰色的頭發(fā)讓他看起來很與眾不同。
The words Light, Dark and Bright are placed before the colour. Light, Dark 和 Bright這3個詞通常放在顏色詞之前。
Colours + ISH
If you are not exactly sure how to describe a colour, we normally use the suffix -ish.
如果你不知道怎樣描述一個顏色，可以在顏色詞后加后綴：-ish。
e.g. Greenish (= approximately green but not exactly green)
• The sunset is a beautiful pinkish-purplish colour today. 今天的夕陽粉色中又帶點紫色。
• His shirt is lightish blue in colour. 他的襯衫是淺藍色的。
Typical Things of each Colour 每種顏色的代表物品
Red: Strawberry, Rose, Fire engine, Blood, Heart 紅色：草莓，玫瑰，消防車，血液，心臟
Orange: Pumpkin, Carrot, Basketball 橙色：南瓜，胡蘿卜，籃球
Yellow: Cheese, Sun, Butter, Lemon 黃色：奶酪，太陽，黃油，檸檬
Green: Grass, Lettuce, Frog, Leaf, Lizard 綠色：青草，生菜，青蛙，樹葉，蜥蜴
Blue: Sky, Ocean, Blueberry, Whale 藍色：天空，海洋，藍莓，鯨魚
Black: Bat, Night, Tire (tyre), Fly 黑色：蝙蝠，夜晚，輪胎，蒼蠅
White: Paper, Sugar, Milk, Snow, Sheep 白色：紙，糖，牛奶，雪，羊
Pink: Pig, Tongue, Cotton candy (Candy floss) 粉色：豬，舌頭，棉花糖
Brown: Wood, Cigar, Earth, Horse 棕色：木頭，雪茄，土地，馬
Grey / Gray: Rock,Dust, Mouse, Elephant 灰色：石頭，粉塵，老鼠，大象
Purple: Bruise, Grapes 紫色：擦傷，葡萄