maroon
maroon 英 [məˈru:n] 美 [məˈrun]
n. 褐红色；逃亡黑人奴隶；孤立的人 v. 使孤立；放逐到无人岛上 adj. 褐红色的
进行时:marooning 过去式:marooned 过去分词:marooned 第三人称单数:maroons 名词复数:maroons
- To maroon is to strand someone in an isolated place, often a deserted island. Think of "Gilligan's Island," "Survivor," or "Lost" — TV shows that feature folks marooned on islands — and you've got the idea.
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- n. 褐红色；逃亡黑人奴隶；孤立的人
- v. 使孤立；放逐到无人岛上
- adj. 褐红色的
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1. I wore a maroon velvet trouser suit that my daughter chose, and most of the village came to the reception.
那天，我穿了女儿为我挑选的栗色天鹅绒裤装，村庄里的大多数人都应邀参加了我的婚礼。
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2. Dozens of Chinese tourists wearing orange, maroon and even tartan hats brush each other aside as they try to snaffle the best spots to photograph an ancient headstone.
几十名穿着橙色，栗色服装，甚至带着格子呢帽的中国游客摩肩接踵，想要占据在一块古老石碑前照相的最佳位置。
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3. The guard led us into a living room decorated with maroon carpets and red pillows.
那个塔利班士兵随后又带我们走进了一间装饰有栗色地毯和靠枕的房间。
- maroon (n.) "very dark reddish-brown color," 1791, from French couleur marron, the color of a marron "chestnut," the large sweet chestnut of southern Europe (maroon in that sense was used in English from 1590s), from dialect of Lyons, ultimately from a word in a pre-Roman language, perhaps Ligurian; or from Greek maraon "sweet chestnut."
- maroon (v.) "put ashore on a desolate island or coast," 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maron (n.) "fugitive black slave in the jungles of W.Indies and Dutch Guyana" (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron "wild, untamed," from Old Spanish cimarra "thicket," probably from cima "summit, top" (from Latin cyma "sprout"), with a notion of living wild in the mountains. Related: Marooned.
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