英语释义

1. of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky of the color blue (see blue entry 2 sense 1)
a blue jacket her bright blue eyes The house is blue with white shutters.

2. bluish
the blue haze of tobacco smoke

3. discolored by or as if by bruising
blue with cold

4. bluish gray
a blue cat

5. low in spirits melancholy
has been feeling blue

6. marked by low spirits depressing
a blue funk things looked blue

7. wearing blue
the blue team

8. learned, intellectual
… the ladies were very blue and well-informed …
— W. M. Thackeray

9. puritanical
… a blue Sunday city …
— James Street

10. profane, indecent
a blue movie

11. off-color, risqué
blue jokes

12. of, relating to, or used in blues (see blues sense 3)
a blue song

13. tending to support Democratic candidates or policies
As has become increasingly clear over the past few general elections, with their red states and blue states, an American Presidential campaign is no longer truly national.
— Hendrik Hertzberg — compare purple sense 3, red sense 5

14. extremely exasperated
argued until he was blue in the face

15. a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet
Blue is his favorite color. shades of blue

16. a pigment or dye that colors blue

17. bluing
adding blue to the laundry

18. blue clothing or cloth
will be wearing blue

19. a blue costume or uniform
wearing their dress blues

20. a Union soldier in the American Civil War

21. the Union army
the Blue versus the Gray

22. sky

23. the far distance
disappeared into the blue

24. sea

25. a blue object

26. bluestocking
praised the writings of her fellow blues

27. any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies (family Lycaenidae)

28. bluefish
fishing for blues

29. blue cheese

30. one of the three colors (see color entry 1 sense 15) that quarks have in the theory of quantum chromodynamics
One cannot have a single quark on its own because it would have a color (red, green, or blue). Instead, a red quark has to be joined to a green and a blue quark by a "string" of gluons (red + green + blue = white). Such a triplet constitutes a proton or a neutron.
— Stephen Hawking

31. without advance notice unexpectedly
the job offer came out of the blue

32. to make (something) blue in color: such as

33. to dye, tint, or paint (something) blue
Last, the generation of the grandmothers, in immaculately blued hair…
— John Updike Tattoos blued his upper arms.
— Jerry Spinelli

34. to heat (iron or steel) to about 550 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit so that it acquires a protective bluish coating
the blued barrel of the gun Between banks shrouded with snow, the river gleamed darkly, like blued steel with gold chips of sunlight dancing on each riffle.
— Pete Bodo

35. to turn blue
their blueing fingers

36. to curse angrily
He sliced the air with his fists and blued the air with his mouth.
— Steve Kelley I have been stealing my father's copy (of Massachusetts Wildlife) for a long time, but last week he found an issue on my desk and blued the air a bit.
— Stephen King Donovan

37. having the color of the clear sky

38. sad or unhappy

39. the color of the clear sky

40. the sky or the sea

41. the color of the clear daytime sky

42. blue clothing or cloth

43. sky sense 1

44. sea sense 1

45. suddenly and unexpectedly

46. of the color of the sky of the color blue
blue ink

47. sad sense 1
Why are you so blue?

48. of the color blue

49. a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet

50. a pigment or dye that colors blue — see prussian blue

英汉例句

• you can turn this troughing idler until you are blue in the face and you will see no results.

  你可以调节托辊却没有任何结果，即使调到你脸色发蓝也是如此。

• fukuyama: we’ve been talking until we’re blue in the face about the kind of liberalization you’ve just mentioned, and of course about revising the value of the renminbi.

  福山：我们此前一直在交谈，直到谈到刚刚你提及的那类自由化问题，当然，这是指修正人民币的价值，此时我们的脸色都有点难堪。

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dirty变脏

filthy骯脏的；污秽的；猥亵的

foul犯规；腐烂；缠结

gross(Gross)人名；(英、法、德、意、葡、西、俄、芬、罗、捷、匈)格罗斯

gutter贫贱的；粗俗的；耸人听闻的

impure不纯的；骯脏的；道德败坏的

indecent下流的；不礼貌的；不得体的

lascivious好色的；淫蕩的；挑动情欲的

lewd淫蕩的；猥亵的；下流的

nasty(Nasty) （俄、美、印）耐史迪（人名）

obscene淫秽的；猥亵的；可憎的

pornographic色情的；色情作品的；春宫画的

porny色情作品的，色情的

profane亵渎；玷污

raunchy邋遢的，不修边幅的；猥亵的

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trashy没用的；碎屑的；垃圾似的；无价值的

unprintable不宜印出的；猥亵的

vulgar平民，百姓

wanton挥霍

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