2023-03-14 16:47:13来源：有考网
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相信很多女生都喜欢pink ，pink这个英语单词表示的是什么意思呢？下面就和学下来小编一起来了解pink的意思及用法吧。
adj.粉红色的
n.粉红色
英 [pɪŋk] 美 [pɪŋk]
pink: English has three distinct words pink. The colour term [18] appears to have come, by a bizarre series of twists, from an early Dutch word meaning ‘small’. This was pinck (source also of the colloquial English pinkie ‘little finger’ [19]). It was used in the phrase pinck oogen, literally ‘small eyes’, hence ‘half-closed eyes’, which was borrowed into English and partially translated as pink eyes.
It has been speculated that this was a name given to a plant of the species Dianthus, which first emerged in the abbreviated form pink in the 16th century. Many of these plants have pale red flowers, and so by the 18th century pink was being used for ‘pale red’. Pink ‘pierce’ [14], now preserved mainly in pinking shears, is probably of Low German origin (Low German has pinken ‘peck’).
And pink (of an engine) ‘make knocking sounds’ [20] is presumably imitative in origin.
pink (n., adj.)
1570s, common name of Dianthus, a garden plant of various colors, of unknown origin. Its use for "pale rose color" first recorded 1733 (pink-coloured is recorded from 1680s), from one of the colors of the flowers. The plant name is perhaps from pink (v.) via notion of "perforated" petals, or from Dutch pink "small" (see pinkie), from the term pinck oogen "half-closed eyes," literally "small eyes," which was borrowed into English (1570s) and may have been used as a name for Dianthus, which sometimes has pale red flowers.
The flower meaning led (by 1590s) to a figurative use for "the flower" or finest example of anything (as in Mercutio"s "Nay, I am the very pinck of curtesie," Rom. & Jul. II.iv.61). Political noun sense "person perceived as left of center but not entirely radical (i.e. red)" is attested by 1927, but the image dates to at least 1837. Pink slip "discharge notice" is first recorded 1915. To see pink elephants "hallucinate from alcoholism" first recorded 1913 in Jack London"s "John Barleycorn."
pink (v.)
c. 1200, pungde "pierce, stab," later (early 14c.) "make holes in; spur a horse," of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Romanic stem that also yielded French piquer, Spanish picar (see pike (n.2)). Or perhaps from Old English pyngan and directly from Latin pungere "to prick, pierce" (see pungent). Surviving mainly in pinking shears.
She carried a spray of pink roses.
她拿著一簇粉红色的玫瑰花。
Write your name and address on this pink slip.
在这张粉红色纸条上写下你的姓名和地址。
The sunset has tinted the sky with pink.
落日把天空染成了粉红色。
Pink is her favorite color.
粉红色是她最喜欢的颜色。
He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor 他正拿着一块布，布上粉红色的水滴落在地板上。
A glass of red wine keeps you in the pink 一杯红酒有益健康。
Businesses are now more aware of the importance of the "pink pound" 现在商家更加意识到同性恋族群消费力、即所谓“粉红英镑”的重要性。
Mr Long was now cutting himself a piece of the pink cake 朗先生正在给自己切一块粉色蛋糕。
She was wearing a flimsy pink dress that streamed out behind her 她穿的那件轻薄的粉红色连衣裙在身后飘舞。
She went pink again as she remembered her mistake 想起自己的错误，她又脸红了。
He waited some 80 to 100 yards from the big pink villa 他在距离那座粉红色的大别墅约80到100码的地方等候着。
Vivid red and pink geraniums cascade over my balcony 鲜艳的红色和粉色的天竺葵从我家的阳台上直挂下去。
An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway 一位面颊绯红、一副乡下贵族打扮的老妇人出现在门口。
"I"m tickled pink," said Jimmy after his wife gave birth “我太开心了，”吉米在妻子分娩后说。
The sea would turn pale pink and the sky blood red 大海会变成浅粉色，天空则变成血红色。
She wore a large pink boa around her neck 她脖子上围着一条粉色长羽毛围巾。
He was wearing, astonishingly, a frilly pink apron over shirt and trousers 他穿得很奇怪，衬衫和裤子外面套着件镶褶边的粉红围裙。
Mollie confesses she is rather partial to pink 莫莉承认她偏爱粉红色。
Her pink dress billowed out around her 她粉红色的连衣裙鼓了起来。
Judi"s favourite colour is pink 朱迪最喜欢的颜色是粉红色。
Joe, Pink, and Booker howled with delight 乔、平克和布克高兴得放声大笑。
She went bright pink with embarrassment 她尴尬得满脸绯红。
His face was a queer pink colour 他满脸奇怪的粉红色。
Many Chinese adults dress their children in brilliant orange, red and pink 很多中国的成人给他们的孩子穿鲜艳的橘黄色 、 红色和粉色的衣服。
