Colors in English 英语颜色大全

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• I know that his father has green fingers. (园艺技能) • Do you see any green in my eye? (无经验易受骗) 你以为我那么好骗吗?
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yellow
He is yellow and is not going to fight for his rights.
• 1. She is red with anger. 她气得满脸通红。 • 2. They came out of the bank carrying the money and the police caught them red-handed. 他们带着赃款从银行里出来,被警察当场 捉住。 (catch sb. red-handed 当场发现某人做坏事或 犯罪,活捉)
Colors in English
Different Colors
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green
yellow
red
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white black
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green
green eyes 嫉妒(green-eyed monster,green with envy,green as jealousy) green hand(口语)新手 greenhouse 温室 greenback (口语)美钞 green finger (口语)园艺技术 greenhorn 无经验易受骗的人,涉世不深的人
• What’s wrong with you? You look green. (面带病容)
• We are green hands, so we must learn from the old
workers. (新手)
• I was green when I saw his new car. (嫉妒)
• The foreign aid to the country was believed to be nothing but a white elephant. • (那个国家得到的外援不但无益而且成了 沉重的负担。) • When he planned to sell his house, his expensive furniture became white elephants.
• (他想要卖房子的时候,他的昂贵的家具 成了累赘。)
• white meat 白色肉(家禽类,小牛肉或者猪肉)
• white flag 白旗(投降的标志)
• They choose a white day for their engagement.
们选择吉日订婚。(black day凶日) • He is the kind of person who calls white black. 就是那种颠倒黑白的人。
(口语,贬义)胆怯 yellow card (裁判员出示的)黄牌警告 yellow pages 黄页(用黄色纸张印刷的电话簿, 经常按照公司类别分类)
yellow line 黄线(路边限制停车)
(注:中文“黄色的,色情的”---Xrated/porn/pornographic)
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red
red letter day 重要的或者值得纪念的日子 be in the red负债,财政赤字 (be in the black盈余) out of the red 偿清债务,还清债务 red carpet (为迎接贵宾铺的)红地毯 red card(裁判员向球员出示的)红牌 red meat红肉,牛羊肉 red eyes (因熬夜,哭等)眼睛红,充血
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blue
(口语)忧伤,沮丧 blues 布鲁斯音乐(源于美国南方黑人中情 调忧郁的一种慢速音乐) blue blood贵族出身,贵族血统 blue collar 蓝领,体力劳动者 blue ribbon 蓝绸带(授予竞赛优胜者的荣誉或奖励) the blue 大海,蓝天 blueprint蓝图,计划,方案


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black
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表示哀悼的颜色(葬礼穿黑色衣服) Black and blue(把某人打得)青一块紫一块 a black sheep 害群之马 My brother is the black sheep of the family. black market黑市 black pepper黑胡椒 black tea红茶 be in the black盈余, 银行有存款 black day 凶日 I’m glad that he is not so black as he is painted. 我很高兴他不是 像你说的那么坏。
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white
• white lie 善意的谎言 Though I believe in telling the truth, I think a white lie is sometimes justified. 虽然我认为 应该说实话,但我认为善意的谎言有时也 是无可非议的。 • He insisted on putting the agreement down in black and white. 他坚持要把这项协议用白纸黑字写下来。
• out of the blue未事先告知的,使人感到意外的 She arrived out of the blue. • once in a blue moon千载难逢 You get a chance like this only once in a blue moon. 这种机会真是千载难逢。 • Mary has felt blue ever since her boyfriend left for Europe. 自从她男朋友去了欧洲以后,玛莉 一直感到闷闷不乐。
White elephant在印度、斯里兰卡(从前称为 锡兰)、泰国、缅甸等国白象(white elephant) 被视为神圣不可侵犯的动物,人们从不会让它 们劳作。据说要饲养一头“white elephant”花 费惊人。所以从前中亚的国王对看不顺眼的大 臣就赐给白象,使他为饲养御赐的白象而倾家 荡产。源自此一典故“white elephant”一词后 来演变而指比其价值或效用所需费用庞大而不 成比例者,或虽然不需要但难于处理之物品了 。
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