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词汇 rainbow
释义 rainbow
noun
uk /ˈreɪn.bəʊ/ us /ˈreɪn.boʊ/

rainbownoun (COLOURED LIGHT)


B2[ C ]
an arch (= curved shape) of different colours seen in the sky when rain is falling and the sun is shining: 彩虹,虹
The sun came out and we saw a rainbow.太阳出来了,我们看到了一道彩虹。
The tropical butterfly's wings were shimmering with all the colours of the rainbow.热带蝴蝶的翅膀像彩虹一样闪烁着五彩缤纷的色彩。
 
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[ C ]
the effect seen when white light separates into its different colours :
The prisms will cast rainbows on the walls.
A perfectly circular rainbow appeared in the spray as the children played in the water.
Look over there - there's a rainbow!看那里——有一道彩虹!
The glass prism refracted the white light into the colours of the rainbow.玻璃棱镜将白色光折射成彩虹的七色光。
The colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - can be seen in a rainbow.光谱中的红、橙、黄、绿、蓝、靛、紫诸色都可以在彩虹中见到。
She did a stencil of a rainbow on her daughter's bedroom wall.她用镂空模板在女儿卧室的墙上画了一道彩虹。
There's a double rainbow!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: rain
bucket
bucket down
cloud seeder
cloud seeding
cloudburst
deluge
downpour
drizzle
heaven
mizzle
pelt
piss
rain gauge
seed
shower
sun shower
torrentially
wash
wash (something) out
wet

rainbownoun (COMBINATION)


[ S ]
a combination of different colours:
Her dress was a rainbow of shimmering gold and mauve and tan and cerise.
The huge bruise went through a rainbow - scarlet, purple and yellow, green, black and blue - before it disappeared.
[ S ]approving
a combination of many different things:
She spoke about a rainbow of topics.
Here there’s a whole rainbow of different courses to choose from.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Monochrome & multi-coloured
colourway
in glorious technicoloridiom
iridescence
iridescent
iridescently
monochrome
multi-hued
multicolour
multicoloured
opalescence
pied
polychrome
prismatic
psychedelic
psychedelically
solid
technicolor
two-tone
unicorn

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Variety and mixtures

rainbownoun (FISH)


[ C ]
(used especially by people who go fishing) a rainbow trout(= a large fish with a reddish stripe along the side) :
I caught a 2.5kg rainbow.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fish & seafood
abalone
albacore
American shad
barramundi
bay scallop
crabmeat
crappie
crawdad
crawfish
cray
littleneck clam
lobster thermidor
lox
mahi mahi
marron
seafood
shad
shellfish
shrimp
shrimp cocktail

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Hunting & fishing

Idiom


(the/a pot of gold at) the end of the rainbow
rainbow
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈreɪn.bəʊ/ us /ˈreɪn.boʊ/

rainbowadjective[before noun] (COLOURFUL)


bright and colourful, often with the colours arranged in stripes:
I love your rainbow sweater!
She was wearing a rainbow wig.
The rainbow flag has become a symbol of the LGBT movement.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Monochrome & multi-coloured
colourway
in glorious technicoloridiom
iridescence
iridescent
iridescently
monochrome
multi-hued
multicolour
multicoloured
opalescence
pied
polychrome
prismatic
psychedelic
psychedelically
solid
technicolor
two-tone
unicorn

rainbowadjective[before noun] (DIFFERENT PEOPLE)


involving or including people of different races:
the rainbow nation of South Africa
involving or including people who have different political ideas, or who belong to different political parties:
He did not rule out a rainbow coalition.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Political movements & groups
alt-right
ANC
anti-Bolshevik
anti-Bolshevism
anti-capitalism
big tent
black bloc
Blairite
Blue Dog
left-winger
leftism
leftist
leftward
lefty
sectarian
sectarianism
segregationist
Sinn Fein
the awkward gangidiom
the SDLP

See also


rainbow baby
rainbow pregnancy
Rainbow
noun
uk /ˈreɪn.bəʊ/ us /ˈreɪn.boʊ/
 Rainbows
the section of the Guides in the UK for girls aged around 4 to 7: (成员年龄在4-7岁之间的)极幼女童军
Girlguiding UK is the governing body of Rainbows, Brownies, and Guides.英国女童军组织是极幼女童军,幼女童军和女童军的管理机构。
a meeting of Rainbows: 极幼女童军集会
Dad will pick you up from Rainbows tonight.今晚爸爸会去极幼女童军聚会接你们。
[ C ]
a girl who is a member of Rainbows: (年龄在4-7岁之间的)极幼女童军成员
Thousands of Girl Guides, Brownies, and Rainbows attended the concert.
She has been with the Guide Association since the age of five when she was a Rainbow.她从5岁起就加入了女童军的极幼女童军组织。
Compare
Brownienoun
Guide
Beaver
cub
Scout
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Named organizations & societies & their members
AFC
AMA
beaver
Beaversphrase
BMA
CND
Jockey Club
mafia
mafioso
mason
Masonic
masonry
MLB
OPEC
Oxfam
ranger
scout
the IOC
the Ordnance Survey
the WWF

rainbow | American Dictionary


rainbow
noun[ C ]
us/ˈreɪnˌboʊ/
an arch of many colors sometimes seen in the sky for a short time when it rains and the sun is shining

Examples of rainbow


rainbow
Note that if a pair of vertices is joined by two rainbow paths then they have the same length.
Neither rainbows nor shadows have bodies, yet both are clearly visible.
While this feature renders rainbows and shadows corporeal, many other clearly perceptible items remain unextended, and so fall into the incorporeal class.
In short, one can link all of the fragments together into a single rainbow path.
To complete the proof it suffices to show that c contains no rainbow cycles of length 2 (mod 4).
An additional 10 nave rainbow trout was included i in the system serving as an internal trout : trout control.
An evaluation of pollutant induced changes in the gills of rainbow trout using scanning electron microscopy.
The trials included 45 rainbow trout (4-5 cm) in three groups of 15 fish each.
A detailed linkage map of rainbow trout produced using doubled haploids.
We then show how the search for a rainbow path reduces to a search for a particular collection of directed paths.
Is there such a thing as a (single) rainbow culture?
He has made a picture with real rain, behind which is real sunshine, and you expect a rainbow every minute.
Our results are not 'either-or' statements and are thus the first results in the literature guaranteeing the existence of rainbow arithmetic progressions.
Such similarities suggest that corner cones are not regenerated in the rainbow trout retina during natural ontogeny or as a result of thyroxin treatment.
His sense of alienation is emphasised by the overwrought music, with its jagged melisma on the word 'rainbow'.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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