Do you think one way in your head, but act differently?
Many people do this, because it helps them get along with other people. But when a person stops doing this, and acts in a way that shows his or her true personality, you can say that person is “showing his or her true colors.”
This might seem like a strange thing to say, since people can't change what color they are, but the saying comes from ships on the ocean.
A long time ago, the word “colors” could also mean “flag.” A ship's “colors” showed what country it was from. That way, when ships met each other on the ocean, they could tell from far away if the other ship was a friend or an enemy.
Sometimes ships wanted to pretend to be from another country to hide from another ship, or to trick a ship into getting too close. But the rules of fighting said that before you could fight anyone, you had to show the flag of the country you were really from. Since “colors” means flag, this was called “showing your true colors.”
(Kayleen Hartman, Staff Writer)
你認為自己的行為與腦袋裡想的不一致嗎？
很多人都是這樣，因為這樣有助於讓自己與他人和諧相處。不過，當你不再這樣做，而是顯現自己真實的個性，你就可以說那個人是「展現自我真實本色」。
由於人類不能改變膚色，這樣說似乎很奇怪，不過這種說法來自於海上的船隻。很久以前，「color」這個字也意指「旗幟」。一艘船的旗幟顯現它是來自哪個國家。如此一來，當船隻在海上相會時，從遠處就可以分辨來者是朋友還是敵人。
有時候船隻也會假裝來自他國，藉此避開其他船隻，或者欺騙船隻來靠近。不過，作戰的規則是，在你與他人作戰之前，必須先展示你實際上是來自哪個國家的旗幟。由於「colors」就是旗幟的意思，因此就有了「showing your ture colors」的說法。(翻譯:賴美君)
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