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词汇 local-colour
语种 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译
释义 local colour
noun[ U ]
UK(USlocal color)uk /ˌləʊ.kəl ˈkʌl.ər/ us /ˌloʊ.kəl ˈkʌl.ɚ/
the special or unusual features of a place, especially as described or shown in a story, picture, or film to make it seem more real(尤指故事、图片、电影中的)地方特色
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Conditions and characteristics
-ance
-ibility
ability
adverse conditions
age
ambience
appearance
aspect
good/bad karmaidiom
have it in youidiom
hood
humanity
presentation
respect
shape
trappings
unaffiliated
undercurrent
vibe
vibe check

Examples of local colour


local colour
Jucker (1996) discusses how loan words can provide both positive and negative localcolour.
Harp figuration over the dark bass lines again suggests localcolour, as do the cantillating violins as they pick up the melody, while the energy slowly builds up beneath them.
Grant, however, does not seem to have exceeded the license justly allowed a novelist of appropriating localcolour for his fictions from graver writers.
From
Wikipedia

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Furthermore, it retains the localcolour of speech and its typical expressions.
At the same time it demonstrates pentecostalism's remarkable capacity to take on localcolour in different contexts.
This is the context most appropriate for the display of exotic touches or localcolour, whether geographical or social.
The poet's images are primal and not technologised at all, evoking localcolour through such words as baboon and monkey.
As described later, the visualization is accomplished by an electrochemical reaction which results in localcolour changes of the fluid.
Attention to details of localcolour is rarely - if ever - motivated solely by entertainment values.
The third level, which might have functioned as 'background' elsewhere but which predominates here, consists of depicting ambience or localcolour, defined either in historical or ethnic terms.
The handicraft, of course, is given a localcolour wherever possible.
From the
Hansard archive

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He passed the building while looking for localcolour for one of his books.
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Is there a further advantage in trying to give the assembly a bit of localcolour by encouraging the use of the word senedd?
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He said that objective dryness sometimes needed localcolour.
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Therefore, we shall get all the localcolour and advice and nationalism we can possibly want.
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