Series of question about English

Thanks for all the answers to my questions!
Well, here's another question:
Does the word "color" have the meaning of "appearance"?
I read the following sentence somewhere:
The philosopher Kâo said, 'To enjoy food and delight in colours is nature.
It was translated from a Chinese literature classic, the orginal Chinese sentence is "食色, 性也", according to my understanding, here 色(color) should mean "woman's looks", so I had the above question.

In this context, it would seem that colors would be synonymous with variety.

However, further research has yielded the following footnote:

1 James Legge, The Works of Mencius (Oxford: Clarendon, 1895), ch. 21. "Sex" and "color" share the same Chinese character but here James Legge misunderstood the text and translated the beginning sentence of ch. 4 wrongly as "To enjoy food and delight in colours is nature." An online version of this text is available on http://www.ishwar.com/confucianism/holy_mencius/part_21.html. Charles Muller's rendering is an improvement: "By nature we desire food and sex." See http://members.tripod.com/wckfc_library/mencius.htm