nuanced 的詞源

"具有或展示色調等方面的細微漸變"，1896年，來自動詞 nuance（見該詞條）的過去分詞形容詞。

The new co-operative history of English literature which the University of Cambridge is now publishing prints "genre" without italics. And it even permits one contributor—and a contributor who is discussing Shakespeare!—to say that something is delicately "nuanced." Is there now an English verb "to nuance"? It is terrible to think of the bad language the scholars of the venerable English university might have used if "nuanced" had been first discovered in the text of an American author. [Scribner's Magazine," January 1911]

劍橋大學現在出版的英國文學新合作歷史將“genre”印刷爲非斜體字。它甚至允許一位撰稿人——一位正在討論莎士比亞的撰稿人！——說某些東西是精細的“nuanced”。現在是否有一個英語動詞“to nuance”？如果“nuanced”是首次在美國作家的文本中被發現，那麼這位古老的英國大學的學者們可能會使用多麼糟糕的語言。[《斯克里布納雜誌》，1911年1月]