| 单词 | maroon |
| 释义 | Related topics: Coloursma·roon1 /məˈruːn/ noun [uncountable] CCa dark brownish red colour 栗色，褐紫红色 —maroon adjectiveExamples from the Corpusmaroon• Meticulously painted in blood maroon and bruise brown, the body parts form an impenetrable jungle trapping various objects in their interior.maroon2 verb [transitive] MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONif you are marooned somewhere, you are left in a place where there are no other people and where you cannot escape 把…困在〔无人的地方〕，无法从…逃脱 → stranded The car broke down and left us marooned in the middle of nowhere. 汽车抛锚，把我们困在了荒郊野外。n Grammar Maroon is usually passive.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusmaroon• Rusting trawlers are marooned in the sand.• Token children marooned on the Harrogate platform could not reduce the wrinkle count in the auditorium.• A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer.• Lived out as the grandfather has lived it, such a desire maroons the self in heroic narrative.Origin maroon1 (1700-1800) French marron “chestnut” maroon2 (1600-1700) maroon “runaway black slave” ((17-19 centuries)), from American Spanish cimarrón, from cimarrón “wild”ma·roon1 nounmaroon2 verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable dark colour brownish Corpus a red |
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