留美老師帶你每日說英文 第719期:顏色的命名

臺灣籍旅美老師今天交給我們的句子是：

As you would expect, different languages have different words for colors. But what interests researchers isn't those simple translations, it's the question of which colors get names at all. Because as much as we think of colors in categories, the truth is that color is a spectrum. It's not obvious why we should have a basic color term for this color, but not this one.
可想而知，不同的語言有不同的“顏色”用詞。但是學者所感興趣的並不是那些字面上的單純翻譯詞，而是究竟哪些顏色該被命名。因爲儘管我們總認爲顏色分成多種類別，但它實則是一個光譜。我們很難去解釋究竟爲何我們應該爲這個顏色命名，而非那個顏色。

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學習重點：

ct 預計
expect (v.) 預計
expectation (n.) 期待、預期
except (v.) 除... 之外
exception (n.) 例外

slation 翻譯
translation (n.) 翻譯
translate (v.) 翻譯
translator (n.) 譯者

gory 類別
category (n.) 類別
categorize (v.) 分類

trum 光譜、範圍
spectrum (n.) 光譜、範圍

ous 明顯的
obvious (adj.) 明顯的