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maroon

adjective
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  1. dark red-brown in colour紫褐色的；褐红色的Topics Colours and Shapesc2
    Word Originadjective late 17th cent. (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from French marron ‘chestnut’, via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to colour dates from the late 18th cent.

maroon

noun
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  1. [uncountable] a dark red-brown colour 褐红色；紫褐色
  2. [countable] a large firework that shoots into the air and makes a loud noise, used to attract attention, especially at sea （海上作为信号的）鞭炮
    3. Word Originnoun late 17th cent. (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from French marron ‘chestnut’, via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to colour dates from the late 18th cent.

maroon

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they maroon
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he / she / it maroons
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past simple marooned
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past participle marooned
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-ing form marooning
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  1. to leave somebody in a place that they cannot escape from, for example an island困住；使无法逃脱 synonym strand
    • be marooned (by something) The car was marooned by floods.汽车被洪水淹没了。
    • ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.《蝇王》是一本关于一群被困在荒岛上的英国男学童的小说。🔊🔊
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    Word Originverb early 18th cent.: from Maroon (a group of people living in the mountains and forests of Suriname and the West Indies), originally in the form marooned ‘lost in the wilds’.