1. Mrs Brown: What colour´s your new dress? 布朗夫人:你的新衣服是什么颜色的?
2. Mrs Brown: What colour´s your new hat? 布朗夫人:你的新帽子是什么颜色的?
3. Mrs Brown: That´s a lovely hat! 布朗夫人:这是一顶好看的帽子!
4. My great-aunt led me through a rotting (朽烂的) doorway into a room with a furnace (炉子), table, and a rocking chair where an old woman wearing gloves sat facing the doorway, covered with a worn brown blanket. 我姨婆领我穿过一条破旧的门道,走进了一个房间,里面有一个火炉、一张桌子和一张摇椅。
5. Our cases are brown. 我们的箱子是棕色的。
6. It was a jaguar, its head and flank a reddish brown broken by black spots. 原来是只美洲虎,一只金毛黑斑的老虎。
7. I own a black gun with a brown handle. It holds five bullets and stays loaded by my bed. 我有一支黑色手枪,手柄是棕色的。手枪就搁在我的床头,里面装着五颗子弹,并且总是上了膛的。
8. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a permanent brown — like the best shoe polish, guaranteed not to rub nor run. 不仅在镜中,也在内心深处,我变成了永远不黑不白的棕色人-- 就像那最好的鞋油,不会被抹掉,也永不褪色。