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单词 colour-blind
释义
colour-blind
adjective
UK(UScolorblind)
uk
/ˈkʌl.ə.blaɪnd/us
/ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd/

colour-blindadjective(EYESIGHT)

unabletoseethedifferencebetweenparticularcolours,especiallygreenandred:
（尤指红绿）色盲的
Colour-blind women arerelativelyrare.
I'm red-green colour-blind.
More examples
  • Hisambitionto be anastronautwasdashedby beingmildlycolour-blind.
  • I havelearnedthisweekthathamstersare colour-blind.
  • A colour-blind traffic-lightinstallerissuingthe County because itfiredhim for beingunabletodistinguishredandgreenwires.
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colour-blindadjective(RACE)

nottreatingsomeonedifferentlybecause oftheirrace:
Papp's colour-blindcastinggave manyblackactorsthechancetoplayShakespeare for the firsttime.
We aspire to asocietywhoseinstitutionsare colour-blind and whosecitizensprogressontheirownmerit.
More examples
  • This is not a colour-blindsocietyandracismstillexists.
  • Allpeopleshould beequallyFrenchwith nodifferentiation, but inpractice, thenationis not colour-blind.
  • Politiciansthinkthey are colour-blind, but parliament'swhitenessissymptomaticof whathappenswhen youpretenddiscriminationdoesn'texist.
(Definition ofcolour-blindfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Accidents have sometimes occurred because the engineers were colour-blind and red and green looked alike to them.
  • Ordinary pigments are never pure, and the test colours may be distinguished by those of their adventitious hues to which the partly colour-blind man may be sensitive.
  • There are many people who are what are called colour-blind, being unable to distinguish one colour from another.
colour-blind
adjective
UK(UScolorblind)
uk
/ˈkʌl.ə.blaɪnd/us
/ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd/
unabletoseethedifferencebetweenparticularcolours,especiallygreenandred
（尤指红绿）色盲的

Examplesofcolour-blind

colour-blind
Analysis of fusion gene and encoded photopigment ofcolour-blindhumans.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That was an early example of what later became universal:colour-blindcasting.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I was told recently that the youth training service had required acolour-blindperson to go on an electrician training course.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Some people,colour-blindin physical matters, have apparently decided to make it a virtue and to extend this affliction to mental, cultural and spiritual blackout.
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However, many police officers would be puzzled by the report's insistence thatcolour-blindpolicing is not enough.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It seems that industry has suddenly becomecolour-blind.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We do not live, and are not likely to live, in acolour-blindworld.
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It is quite wrong for any police officer to claim in his dealing with people that he iscolour-blind.
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The suggestion was that all one had to do was to becolour-blind.
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If a mistake was made in these cases, how many men have been allowed to go to sea who arecolour-blind?
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Is it not a fact that, generally,colour-blindpeople recognise a difference in shade which tells them that different colours are showing?
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Then there are the cases of thecolour-blind.
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The police are beginning to understand that "colour-blindpolicing" is not the way in which to police a multicultural society.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
So, far from beingcolour-blindwhen admitting applicants, they will admit members of a particular racial group because of their race and not because of their suitability.
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If they werecolour-blind, then there must have been some mistake on the part of those who tested them; there must have been something wrong if they were passed.
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