blue

英 [bluː] 美[blʊ]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词empyrean firmament sky air atmosphere the blue

n. 蓝色；[复数]（美国海、陆、空三军穿的）蓝色制服；蓝颜料；[the blue(s)][用作单数或复数]布鲁斯（歌曲）（一种伤感的美国黑人民歌
adj. 蓝色的；沮丧的，忧郁的；下流的
vt. 把…染成蓝色；使成蓝色；给…用上蓝剂；用上蓝剂于
vi. 变成蓝色，呈蓝色
n. （英、西、意）布卢（人名）

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中文词源

blue 蓝色的

来自PIE * bhel, 燃烧，发光。词源同blank, black. 在古英语里这一PIE词表示各种颜色。

词态变化

复数: blues;比较级: bluer;最高级: bluest;名词: blueness;

英文词源

blue: blue: [13] Colour terms are notoriously slippery things, and blue is a prime example. Its ultimate ancestor, Indo-European *bhlēwos, seems originally to have meant ‘yellow’ (it is the source of Latin flāvus ‘yellow’, from which English gets flavine ‘yellow dye’ [19]). But it later evolved via ‘white’ (Greek phalós ‘white’ is related) and ‘pale’ to ‘livid, the colour of bruised skin’ (Old Norse has blá ‘livid’).

English had the related blāw, but it did not survive, and the modern English word was borrowed from Old French bleu. This was descended from a Common Romance *blāvus, which in turn was acquired from prehistoric Germanic *blǣwaz (source also of German blau ‘blue’).
=> flavine
blue (1): c. 1300, bleu, blwe, etc., from Old French blo "pale, pallid, wan, light-colored; blond; discolored; blue, blue-gray," from Frankish *blao or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *blæwaz (cognates: Old English blaw, Old Saxon and Old High German blao, Danish blaa, Swedish blå, Old Frisian blau, Middle Dutch bla, Dutch blauw, German blau "blue"), from PIE *bhle-was "light-colored, blue, blond, yellow," from PIE root bhel- (1) "to shine, flash" (see bleach (v.)).

The same PIE root yielded Latin flavus "yellow," Old Spanish blavo "yellowish-gray," Greek phalos "white," Welsh blawr "gray," Old Norse bla "livid" (the meaning in black and blue), showing the usual slippery definition of color words in Indo-European The present spelling is since 16c., from French influence (Modern French bleu).
The exact color to which the Gmc. term applies varies in the older dialects; M.H.G. bla is also 'yellow,' whereas the Scandinavian words may refer esp. to a deep, swarthy black, e.g. O.N. blamaðr, N.Icel. blamaður 'Negro' [Buck]

Few words enter more largely into the composition of slang, and colloquialisms bordering on slang, than does the word BLUE. Expressive alike of the utmost contempt, as of all that men hold dearest and love best, its manifold combinations, in ever varying shades of meaning, greet the philologist at every turn. [John S. Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present," 1890, p.252]
The color of constancy since Chaucer at least, but apparently for no deeper reason than the rhyme in true blue (c. 1500). From early times blue was the distinctive color of the dress of servants, which may be the reason police uniforms are blue, a tradition Farmer dates to Elizabethan times. For blue ribbon see cordon bleu under cordon. Blue whale attested from 1851, so called for its color. The flower name blue bell is recorded by 1570s. Blue streak, of something resembling a bolt of lightning (for quickness, intensity, etc.) is from 1830, U.S. Western slang.

Many Indo-European languages seem to have had a word to describe the color of the sea, encompasing blue and green and gray; such as Irish glass (see Chloe); Old English hæwen "blue, gray," related to har (see hoar); Serbo-Croatian sinji "gray-blue, sea-green;" Lithuanian šyvas, Russian sivyj "gray."
blue (2): "lewd, indecent" recorded from 1840 (in form blueness, in an essay of Carlyle's); the sense connection is unclear, and is opposite to that in blue laws (q.v.). John Mactaggart's "Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" (1824) containing odd words he had learned while growing up in Galloway and elsewhere in Scotland, has an entry for Thread o'Blue, "any little smutty touch in song-singing, chatting, or piece of writing." Farmer ["Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present," 1890] offers the theory that this meaning derives from the blue dress uniforms issued to harlots in houses of correction, but he writes that the earlier slang authority John Camden Hotten "suggests it as coming from the French Bibliothèque Bleu, a series of books of very questionable character," and adds, from Hotten, that, "Books or conversation of an entirely opposite nature are said to be Brown or Quakerish, i.e., serious, grave, decent."
blue (v.): "to make blue," c. 1600, from blue (1).

双语例句

1. She was a shy, delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.: 她是一个害羞、娇美的女孩，长着一双大大的蓝眼睛。

2. Queen Mary started the fashion for blue and white china in England.: 玛丽女王开启了青花瓷在英格兰的流行风尚。

3. She stared dreamily out of the small window at the blue horizon.: 她出神地看着小窗子外面的蓝色地平线。

4. They pried open a sticky can of blue paint.: 他们撬开了一个黏糊糊的蓝色油漆桶。

5. He stared at me out of those washed-out blue eyes.: 他用暗淡无神的蓝眼睛盯着我看。

英英释意

1. the color of the clear sky in the daytime;: "he had eyes of bright blue"

2. blue clothing;: "she was wearing blue"

3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue;: "the Union army was a vast blue"

4. the sky as viewed during daylight;: "he shot an arrow into the blue"

5. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

6. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

7. any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

考试真题

Students mark the main ideas and important details with a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange.

For example, maybe you will mark main ideas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange

Would you like to see those pants in brown and navy blue?

But it's not black and blue or anything.

She is black and blue all over

When night falls, red and blue and other colors cast a hazy glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs.

When the students came in, sharpened pencils in hand, there was not a blue book in sight.

Hello Jane.Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

In Act One of the show, a yellow cube is lifted from a blue box, and moved across the stage.

simultaneously, technological advancement and global economy has reduced demand for well- paying blue collar jobs here in the United States.

A home environment in blue can help people reduce food intake.

After climbing up a hill for a panoramic view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

No, we don't have it in yellow, only in red and blue.

Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton.

So when it's time to repaint, go blue.

That first year, I started feeding peanuts to the blue jays, then the squirrels.

The first parking space I found was convenient, but I'd noticed a woman in a blue car circling for a white.

The model projects that currently blue areas with little phytoplankton could become even bluer.

We'd love to explore beale street, the official home of the blues, where we'd listen to live music.

When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness.

In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada ,Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her, Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

Blue, with its intimations of the virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity.

Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant's sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

实用场景例句

bright/dark/light/pale blue: 明亮的 / 深 / 浅 / 淡蓝色

The room was decorated in vibrant blues and yellows.: 房间内部以鲜明的蓝色和黄色作为装饰。

She was dressed in blue.: 她身着蓝色服装。

The decision came out of the blue.: 这个决定来得很突然。

You can argue till you're blue in the face, but you won't change my mind.: 你可以费尽口舌，但改变不了我的主意。

piercing blue eyes: 锐利的蓝眼睛

a blue shirt: 蓝色衬衫

Her hands were blue with cold.: 她的双手冻得发青。

He'd been feeling blue all week.: 他整个星期都郁郁不乐。

a blue movie: 色情片

[不可数名词, 单数]the blueness of the water: 蔚蓝色的水面

One of them wrote to us out of the blue several years later.: 数年后他们中的一人突然给我们写了一封信。

She fixed her pale blue eyes on her father's.: 她淡蓝色的眼睛紧紧盯着她父亲的双眼。

His singing really does have the depth and the emotional range of the blues.: 他的歌声确实颇有布鲁斯音乐的内蕴和情感深度。

...the blues bars of Chicago.: 芝加哥的蓝调酒吧

Interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the blues.: 喜欢指手画脚的姻亲最让人头疼。

There's no earthly reason for me to feel so blue.: 我也说不出来为什么这么沮丧。

...a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies.: 偷偷藏起来的一堆色情杂志和黄色影碟

There were swallows in the cloudless blue sky...: 燕子在万里无云的蓝天飞翔。

Join the blue wool onto the end of the gold pattern and work the same stitches into the back.: 在这金色图案边缘织上蓝毛线,在背面也用同样的方法来织.

Wash the white clothes together, and the blue one separately.: 那些白衣服放在一起洗, 这件蓝的要单洗.

The blue car overtook ours.: 那辆蓝色的汽车超过我们的车子.

Someone has flown off with my blue bag.: 有人偷走了我的蓝色提包.

Join the blue wool on the end of the gold pattern and work the same stitches into the back.: 在这金制图案边缘织上蓝毛线,在背面也用同样的方法来织.

She wanted to buy the orange dress, but we persuaded her that the blue one was more becoming.: 她想买那件橙色连衣裙, 但我们使她相信蓝色的更合适.

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