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complexionn.
1. colour of skin or face肤色，脸色。
△Oth. 3.3.229:“Not to affect many proposed matches / Of her ownclime,complexion,and degree.”她完全不顾许许多多和她同国家、同肤色、同等级的求婚者。
△L.L.L.4.3.234(230):“Of all complexions the culled sovereignty / Do meetas at a fair in her fair cheek.”她的娇好的面颊上集合着一切最出众的美点。
△Wiv.4.2.24(23): “so curses allEve’s daughters,of what complexion soever；”凡是夏娃的女儿，不分黑皮肤、白皮肤，一个个都被他咒骂过来了。
△H.V.2.2.72: “What see you in those papers that you loseso much complexion?”i.e.turn so pale. 你们在文件里看见了什么，竟这样大惊失色？
2. face面孔。
△H.V. 3.3.17:“his smirched complex-ion”，他那被硝烟熏黑的面孔。
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，(又译：就像您那样。)
△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，万能的爱情，你差一点把天神的尊容变得像一只笨鹅！
△Ham.2.2.486(455): “Hath now this dreadand black complexion smeared / with heraldry more dismal.”现在他这漆黑可怖的外貌又涂上了一层更凶险的纹章。
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）四种体液在人体中的组合；(转义：由于某一种体液占主导地位而形成的)气质，脾性；（转义）某一种脾气，气质特征，特性。
△Ham.1.4.27:“By the o’ergrowth of some complexion”，由于某种特殊的气质的过分发展。
5. nature,natural tendency天性，天然倾向。
△Mer. 3.1. 32(28):“the bird was fledge,and then it is thecomplexion of them all to leave the dam.”小鸟长了羽毛，这时候离开母鸟，也正是它们的天性。
6. character,personality,temperament性格，个性，气质。
△Tw. 2.5.29(25):“should she fancy,it should beone of my complexion.”如果她要爱，一定要爱像我这种脾气的人。
7. ❶colour of the skin肤色。
❷temperament气质。
△L.L.L.1.2.83(78): “Of what complexion?” 是什么肤色(双关：脾性)?
8. bodily constitution体质。
△Ham.5.2.102(98):“But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for mycomplexion.”但是就我的体质来说，我觉得天气十分闷热。 |