complexion

complexion
noun
  1. the natural colour, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face
    天然肤色（尤指面色）
    an attractive girl with a pale complexion.
    肤色苍白的动人女孩。
  2. the general aspect or character of something
    概貌，样子；局势，情况；性质
    the complexion of the game changed.
    比赛的形势改变了。
    successive governments of all complexions.
    形形色色的连续各届政府。
派生
complexioned
adjective
  1. [often in combination]they were both fair-complexioned.
    他们俩都肤色白皙。
语源
  1. Middle English: via Old French from Latin complexio(n-) 'combination' (in late Latin 'physical constitution'), from complectere 'embrace, comprise'. The term originally denoted physical constitution or temperament determined by the combination of the four bodily humours, hence sense 1 (late 16th cent.) as a visible sign of this
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