blue是什么意思_blue怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky;"October"s bright blue weather"
"a blue flame"
"blue haze of tobacco smoke"

used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms);"a ragged blue line"

filled with melancholy and despondency ;"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
"gloomy predictions"
"a gloomy silence"
"took a grim view of the economy"
"the darkening mood"
"lonely and blue in a strange city"
"depressed by the loss of his job"
"a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
"downcast after his defeat"
"feeling discouraged and downhearted"

characterized by profanity or cursing;"foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
"blue language"
"profane words"

suggestive of sexual impropriety;"a blue movie"
"blue jokes"
"he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"
"a juicy scandal"
"a naughty wink"
"naughty words"
"racy anecdotes"
"a risque story"
"spicy gossip"

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;"an aristocratic family"
"aristocratic Bostonians"
"aristocratic government"
"a blue family"
"blue blood"
"the blue-blooded aristocracy"
"of gentle blood"
"patrician landholders of the American South"
"aristocratic bearing"
"aristocratic features"
"patrician tastes"

morally rigorous and strict;"the puritan work ethic"
"puritanic distaste for alcohol"
"she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

causing dejection;"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
"a week of rainy depressing weather"
"a disconsolate winter landscape"
"the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
"a dark gloomy day"
"grim rainy weather"

Verb:

turn blue

中英词源

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。

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).

词态变化

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

权威造句

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。

近反义词

adj.

dejected

depress

gloomy

miserable

sad

unhappy

sapphire

blow

相似短语

in blue 穿着蓝色衣服

in the blue 在蓝空,在蔚蓝色的海洋

into the blue 至远处不见, 消失得无影无踪

pale blue,light blue,baby blue 淡蓝

be blue in the face v. 脸上突然变色

blue devil 恶魔

blue streak 闪电般的行动,昙花一现;滔滔不绝的话语

sky blue n. 天蓝色,蔚蓝色

thumb blue n. 靛蓝

blue baby 婴儿发绀

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