The article reveals universal nature of colour terms. The author reviews Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity as a condition resulted in numerous researches devoted to this topic and provided scientists with a possibility to analyze interrelation between language, society and way of thinking. The article also contains a short description of B. Berlin and P. Kay's theory which is used by linguists as a basis for colour terms classifications in various languages. The Chinese language is used by the author as an example for analyzing universal features manifested themselves in colour terms.
文章揭示了颜色术语的通用性。作者涉及到了语言相对论(也称为萨丕尔-沃夫假说），把它当为导致对该主题进行大量研究的条件，并为科学家提供了分析语言，社会和思维方式之间相互关系的可能性。本文还简要介绍主要颜色术语的理论，语言学家将其用作各种语言中颜色术语分类的基础。作者以中文为例来分析以颜色表示的普遍特征。