| 釋義 |
complexionn.
1. colour of skin or face膚色，臉色。
△Oth. 3.3.229:“Not to affect many proposed matches / Of her ownclime,complexion,and degree.”她完全不顧許許多多和她同國家、同膚色、同等級的求婚者。
△L.L.L.4.3.234(230):“Of all complexions the culled sovereignty / Do meetas at a fair in her fair cheek.”她的嬌好的面頰上集合著一切最出眾的美點。
△Wiv.4.2.24(23): “so curses allEve’s daughters,of what complexion soever；”凡是夏娃的女兒，不分黑皮膚、白皮膚，一個個都被他咒罵過來了。
△H.V.2.2.72: “What see you in those papers that you loseso much complexion?”i.e.turn so pale. 你們在文件里看見了什么，竟這樣大驚失色？
2. face面孔。
△H.V. 3.3.17:“his smirched complex-ion”，他那被硝煙熏黑的面孔。
3. outward appearance,figure,look外貌，外形相貌。
△Tw.2.4. 26:“Of your complexion.”i.e. She lookslike you.相貌跟您差不多，(又譯：就像您那樣。)
△Ado. 1.1.323(313):“know love’s grief by his complexion!”看他的外表就能知道他的苦楚！
△Wiv.5.5.8(7):“O omnip-otent love,how near the god drew to the complexionof a goose!”啊，萬能的愛情，你差一點把天神的尊容變得像一只笨鵝！
△Ham.2.2.486(455): “Hath now this dreadand black complexion smeared / with heraldry more dismal.”現(xiàn)在他這漆黑可怖的外貌又涂上了一層更兇險的紋章。
4. (lit.) combination of the four humours (blood,choler,melancholy,phlegm) in a man’s bodily consti-tution; temperament,natural disposition (as deter-mined by which of the four humours was dominant);a single dominant humour,a temperamental charac-teristic. a particular characteristic（原指）四種體液在人體中的組合；(轉(zhuǎn)義：由于某一種體液占主導地位而形成的)氣質(zhì)，脾性；（轉(zhuǎn)義）某一種脾氣，氣質(zhì)特征，特性。
△Ham.1.4.27:“By the o’ergrowth of some complexion”，由于某種特殊的氣質(zhì)的過分發(fā)展。
5. nature,natural tendency天性，天然傾向。
△Mer. 3.1. 32(28):“the bird was fledge,and then it is thecomplexion of them all to leave the dam.”小鳥長了羽毛，這時候離開母鳥，也正是它們的天性。
6. character,personality,temperament性格，個性，氣質(zhì)。
△Tw. 2.5.29(25):“should she fancy,it should beone of my complexion.”如果她要愛，一定要愛像我這種脾氣的人。
7. ?colour of the skin膚色。
?temperament氣質(zhì)。
△L.L.L.1.2.83(78): “Of what complexion?” 是什么膚色(雙關(guān)：脾性)?
8. bodily constitution體質(zhì)。
△Ham.5.2.102(98):“But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for mycomplexion.”但是就我的體質(zhì)來說，我覺得天氣十分悶熱。 |