maroon

• n. 栗色；逃亡黑人奴隸；孤立的人
• v. 使孤立；放逐到無人島上
• adj. 栗色的

來自法語couleur marron,栗子色，couleur,顏色，詞源同color,marron,栗子，栗色，可能來自希臘語maraon,甜栗，產於南歐。

來自法語marron,來自西班牙語cimmaron的拚寫訛誤，野的，未馴服的，來自古西班牙語cimarra,叢林，來自PIE*keue,鼓起，膨脹，詞源同encumber,cumulative.最早用於指中南美洲西班牙殖民地逃亡到叢林的黑奴，後來用於航海術語，把犯了錯誤的水手扔到一座孤島上自生自滅，並留下一顆子彈供其自殺。

maroon

maroon: English has two distinct and completely unrelated words maroon. The one denoting ‘brownish red’ and ‘firework’ [16] has had a chequered semantic history, as its present-day diversity of meanings suggests. It comes ultimately from medieval Greek máraon ‘sweet chestnut’, and reached English via Italian marrone and French marron (as in marrons glacés).

It was originally used for ‘chestnut’ in English too, but that sense died out in the early 18th century, leaving behind the colour term (an allusion to the reddish brown of the chestnut’s inner shell) and ‘firework, exploding projectile’ (perhaps a reference to the shape of such devices). Maroon ‘abandon’ [17] comes from the noun maroon. This originally meant ‘runaway slave’, and comes via French from American Spanish cimarron.

The most widely accepted derivation of this is that it was based on Spanish cima ‘summit’, a descendant of Latin cyma ‘sprout’, and that it thus denotes etymologically ‘one who lives on the mountain tops’.

maroon (n.)

"very dark reddish-brown color," 1791, from French couleur marron, the color of a marron "chestnut," the large sweet chestnut of southern Europe (maroon in that sense was used in English from 1590s), from dialect of Lyons, ultimately from a word in a pre-Roman language, perhaps Ligurian; or from Greek maraon "sweet chestnut."

maroon (v.)

"put ashore on a desolate island or coast," 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maron (n.) "fugitive black slave in the jungles of W.Indies and Dutch Guyana" (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron "wild, untamed," from Old Spanish cimarra "thicket," probably from cima "summit, top" (from Latin cyma "sprout"), with a notion of living wild in the mountains. Related: Marooned.

1. She opened the tie box and looked at her purchase. It was silk, with maroon stripes.

她打開領帶盒，看著她買回的東西：一條帶有褐紅色條紋的絲製領帶。

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2. 'I'm Ben Gunn, I am,'replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment.

“ 是的, 我是本-剛恩, ”這位放逐在荒灘上的水手答道, 一麵不好意思地像鰻魚一樣扭動著身子.

來自英漢文學 - 金銀島

3. To Ron from Mrs. Weasley: a maroon hand - knitted sweater, always in maroon.

韋斯萊太太給羅恩的禮物: 一件栗色的手織毛衣, 總是用栗色.

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4. A maroon - and - orange salamander stalks across my path - a miniature dinosaur on a mission.

一隻褐紅和橙黃相雜的蠑螈悄悄地在我所走的小徑上橫著爬了過去 - 一隻正在執行任務的小型恐龍.

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5. When the tide came in I was a maroon out there.

漲潮時,我在那裏遊蕩.

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