chromo
chromo — 名詞
1. a color picture made in the 1800s and early 1900s using an old printing method —
彩色石版畫
十九世紀的多色石版印刷圖
a color picture made in the 1800s and early 1900s using an old printing method — each color was pressed onto paper from a separate stone plate — and sold as cheap wall art for ordinary homes
Grandma kept a chromo of a sailing ship hanging above the fireplace for over fifty years.
奶奶把那幅帆船彩色石版畫掛在壁爐上方超過五十年。
collocation: chromo of [subject]
Tariro found a faded chromo of a rose garden at the antique market for only five dollars.
Tariro 在古董市場找到一幅褪色的玫瑰花園彩色石版畫，只花了五美元。
Unlike modern posters, each chromo was made by hand — a printer pressed an inked stone plate for each color.
和現代海報不同，每一張彩色石版畫都是手工製作的——印刷工人為每一種顏色各自使用一塊著墨的石板來壓印。
The museum owns a collection of Victorian chromos that still have their bright original colors.
這家博物館收藏了一批維多利亞時期的彩色石版畫，至今仍保有鮮豔的原色。
Rodrigo paid a high price for the chromo because only two hundred copies of that image were ever made.
Rodrigo 花了高價買下那幅彩色石版畫，因為那個圖案只印了兩百張。
- chromolithograph
the full technical term for a chromo; much less common in everyday speech
- lithograph
a broader category — chromolithographs are a subtype of lithographs that use multiple colors
用法筆記
Now largely replaced by photographic and digital prints, "chromo" is mainly encountered in antique-collecting and art-history contexts.
常見錯誤
chromo — 構詞成分
1. relating to the appearance or property of color — used in scientific terms to de
顏色的；色彩
表示與顏色有關的前綴
relating to the appearance or property of color — used in scientific terms to describe things that are colored, show color, or produce color (for the chemical coloring matter inside substances, see the PIGMENT sense)
A chromosome is called a colored body in Greek because scientists saw it as a dark stain under a microscope.
染色體（chromosome）在希臘文中被稱為「有顏色的物體」，因為科學家在顯微鏡下觀察到它就像是細胞內的深色斑點。
example word: chromosome — semantic link to staining/dye
In the 1870s, a London publisher used chromolithography to add bright red, blue, and gold pictures to a children's storybook.
1870年代，一家倫敦出版社使用彩色石版印刷術，在一本兒童故事書中加入了鮮紅、亮藍和金色的圖畫。
example word: chromolithograph — multi-stone color printing
In the lab, Zayd used a chromogenic stain that turned muscle fibers pink and bone cells blue under the microscope.
在實驗室裡，Zayd 使用了一種生色染劑，讓肌肉纖維在顯微鏡下變成粉紅色，骨細胞變成藍色。
When a tomato ripens, the green chloroplasts inside its cells turn into red chromoplasts that store bright pigments.
番茄成熟時，細胞內的綠色葉綠體會轉變成儲存鮮豔色素的紅色有色體。
- chromato-
also means 'color', but appears in different word families — 'chromato-' is used in chromatography, while 'chromo-' appears in chromosome and chromolithograph
文法句型
chromo- + noun
用法筆記
The combining form "chromo-" appears in many biology, chemistry, and art-history terms. It is not used as a standalone English word; it always attaches to another word element.
2. relating to the coloring matter inside substances — used in chemistry and biolog
色素；色原
表示與色素或著色物質有關的前綴
relating to the coloring matter inside substances — used in chemistry and biology for the actual molecules or compounds that give a material its color, such as the pigment in plant cells or the agent that makes a stain work
The red stain on the kitchen counter came from a chromogen in beet juice that only appeared after it dried.
廚房流理台上的紅色污漬來自甜菜汁中的一種色素原，在汁液乾掉之後才顯現出來。
example word: chromogen — pigment precursor in food
The art teacher mixed natural chromoproteins from crushed berries with egg yolk to make watercolor paints.
美術老師將搗碎的莓果中的天然色蛋白與蛋黃混合，製成水彩顏料。
example word: chromoprotein — pigment + protein compound in art supplies
Saira boiled red cabbage, and a chromogen in the water changed from purple to blue after she added baking soda.
Saira 煮紫高麗菜時，水中的色素原從紫色變成了藍色——她加了小蘇打之後。
In biology class, the students crushed spinach leaves to see the green chromoplasts floating in the liquid under the microscope.
生物課上，學生搗碎菠菜葉，在顯微鏡下觀察漂浮在液體中的綠色有色體。
文法句型
chromo- + noun
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 (COLOR / COLORED): this sense focuses specifically on pigment molecules and coloring agents in chemistry, whereas sense 1 covers color more broadly.
3. relating specifically to the metallic element chromium (chemical symbol Cr) — us
鉻；含鉻的
表示與金屬元素鉻有關的前綴
relating specifically to the metallic element chromium (chemical symbol Cr) — used in chemical and industrial terms to name compounds that contain this element, regardless of what color those compounds may have
The textile factory used sodium chromate, a bright yellow powder, to give its cotton fabrics a lasting golden color.
那間紡織廠使用鉻酸鈉——一種亮黃色的粉末——來讓棉布染上持久的金黃色。
example compound: chromate — salt containing chromium
Many kitchen faucets and car bumpers get their shiny, long-lasting finish from a thin layer of chromium metal.
許多廚房水龍頭和汽車保險桿的光亮持久表面，來自一層薄薄的鉻金屬鍍層。
everyday example: chromium plating on household items
Hyun learned that chromium is named after the Greek word for color because its compounds are brightly colored.
Hyun 學到，鉻（chromium）的名稱來自希臘文的「顏色」，因為它的化合物顏色鮮豔。
After new safety rules, the paint factory stopped using chromate pigments — the chromium was linked to worker health problems.
新的安全法規實施後，那間油漆廠停止使用鉻酸鹽顏料，因為其中的鉻與工人健康問題有關。
文法句型
chromo- + noun
用法筆記
This sense of "chromo-" appears primarily in industrial chemistry and materials-science contexts, such as when discussing chromium compounds used in metal plating, stainless-steel production, or environmental testing. Unlike the color or pigment senses, words formed with this prefix always refer to compounds that contain the element chromium (Cr).