blue
英 [blu?]
美[bl?]
- n. 藍(lán)色；[復(fù)數(shù)]（美國海、陸、空三軍穿的）藍(lán)色制服；藍(lán)顏料；[the blue(s)][用作單數(shù)或復(fù)數(shù)]布魯斯（歌曲）（一種傷感的美國黑人民歌
- adj. 藍(lán)色的；沮喪的，憂郁的；下流的
- vt. 把…染成藍(lán)色；使成藍(lán)色；給…用上藍(lán)劑；用上藍(lán)劑于
- vi. 變成藍(lán)色，呈藍(lán)色
- n. （英、西、意）布盧（人名）
CET4TEM4GRE考研CET6高頻詞基本詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?blues;比較級:?bluer;最高級:?bluest;名詞:?blueness;
中文詞源
blue 藍(lán)色的
來自PIE * bhel, 燃燒，發(fā)光。詞源同blank, black. 在古英語里這一PIE詞表示各種顏色。
英英釋意
- 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
英文詞源
- 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 *bl?waz (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 *bl?waz (cognates: Old English blaw, Old Saxon and Old High German blao, Danish blaa, Swedish bl?, 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. blamaer, N.Icel. blamaeur 'Negro' [Buck]
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.
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]
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 h?wen "blue, gray," related to har (see hoar); Serbo-Croatian sinji "gray-blue, sea-green;" Lithuanian ?yvas, 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).
同義詞辨析
sad, unhappy, gloomy, blue, sorrowful, melancholy
這些形容詞均含"憂傷的，悲哀的，傷感的"之意。
sad： 最常用詞，泛指一切形式的悲傷，著重暫時(shí)的不幸或感覺的憂傷。
unhappy： 多指日常生活中遇到不如意的事而感到不愉快、不幸，側(cè)重指心理狀態(tài)。
gloomy： 指愁眉苦臉，令他人也感到掃興。
blue： 非正式用詞，語氣較隨便，指較強(qiáng)烈的憂郁或沮喪。
sorrowful： 多指因喪失親人等原因所引起的悲哀，也指由于錯(cuò)誤而產(chǎn)生的悔恨交加的心情。
melancholy： 指經(jīng)常性的憂郁或悲哀，多用于文學(xué)描寫中。
考試真題
- Students mark the main ideas and important details with a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- For example, maybe you will mark main ideas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- Would you like to see those pants in brown and navy blue?
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- But it's not black and blue or anything.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- She is black and blue all over
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- 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.
2018年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- When the students came in, sharpened pencils in hand, there was not a blue book in sight.
2017年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- 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.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- In Act One of the show, a yellow cube is lifted from a blue box, and moved across the stage.
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- simultaneously, technological advancement and global economy has reduced demand for well- paying blue collar jobs here in the United States.
2018年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- A home environment in blue can help people reduce food intake.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設(shè)
- 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.
2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.
2018年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文
- 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.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- No, we don't have it in yellow, only in red and blue.
2015年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文
- Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- So when it's time to repaint, go blue.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- That first year, I started feeding peanuts to the blue jays, then the squirrels.
2015年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文
- The first parking space I found was convenient, but I'd noticed a woman in a blue car circling for a white.
2015年高考英語上海卷 語法填空 A 原文
- The model projects that currently blue areas with little phytoplankton could become even bluer.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- We'd love to explore beale street, the official home of the blues, where we'd listen to live music.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文
- When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness.
2015年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- 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.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Blue, with its intimations of the virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity.
2012年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
詞組搭配
do something until (或 till) one is blue in the fac
(informal)put all one's efforts into doing something to no avail
累死累活白干一場，忙得臉色發(fā)紫
she could talk to him until she was blue in the face, but he was just not hearing.
她可以和他談到累死，可他只當(dāng)沒聽見。
once in a blue moon
(informal)very rarely
(非正式)難得有一次，極為罕見
scream (或 yell) blue murder
talk a blue streak
(N. Amer. informal)speak continuously and at great length
(北美，非正式)喋喋不休，沒完沒了地說，說個(gè)不停
blue in the face
To the point or at the point of extreme exasperation
臉色發(fā)青：至于或處于極度憤怒的狀態(tài)
I argued with them until I was blue in the face.
和他們爭論到我臉色發(fā)青
into the blue
At a far distance; into the unknown.
遠(yuǎn)距離；遙不可測
out of the blue
From an unexpected or unforeseen source
出乎意料的：來自沒有想到或沒有預(yù)測的
criticism that came out of the blue.
突如其來的批評
At a completely unexpected time
突然的，始料不及的：在意料不到的時(shí)間里
arrived out of the blue.
突然拜訪
實(shí)用場景例句
- bright/dark/light/pale blue
- 明亮的 / 深 / 淺 / 淡藍(lán)色
牛津詞典
- The room was decorated in vibrant blues and yellows.
- 房間內(nèi)部以鮮明的藍(lán)色和黃色作為裝飾。
牛津詞典
- She was dressed in blue.
- 她身著藍(lán)色服裝。
牛津詞典
- The decision came out of the blue.
- 這個(gè)決定來得很突然。
牛津詞典
- You can argue till you're blue in the face, but you won't change my mind.
- 你可以費(fèi)盡口舌，但改變不了我的主意。
牛津詞典
- piercing blue eyes
- 銳利的藍(lán)眼睛
牛津詞典
- a blue shirt
- 藍(lán)色襯衫
牛津詞典
- Her hands were blue with cold.
- 她的雙手凍得發(fā)青。
牛津詞典
- He'd been feeling blue all week.
- 他整個(gè)星期都郁郁不樂。
牛津詞典
- a blue movie
- 色情片
牛津詞典
- [不可數(shù)名詞, 單數(shù)]the blueness of the water
- 蔚藍(lán)色的水面
牛津詞典
- One of them wrote to us out of the blue several years later.
- 數(shù)年后他們中的一人突然給我們寫了一封信。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- She fixed her pale blue eyes on her father's.
- 她淡藍(lán)色的眼睛緊緊盯著她父親的雙眼。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- His singing really does have the depth and the emotional range of the blues.
- 他的歌聲確實(shí)頗有布魯斯音樂的內(nèi)蘊(yùn)和情感深度。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- ...the blues bars of Chicago.
- 芝加哥的藍(lán)調(diào)酒吧
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the blues.
- 喜歡指手畫腳的姻親最讓人頭疼。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- There's no earthly reason for me to feel so blue.
- 我也說不出來為什么這么沮喪。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- ...a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies.
- 偷偷藏起來的一堆色情雜志和黃色影碟
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- There were swallows in the cloudless blue sky...
- 燕子在萬里無云的藍(lán)天飛翔。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Join the blue wool onto the end of the gold pattern and work the same stitches into the back.
- 在這金色圖案邊緣織上藍(lán)毛線,在背面也用同樣的方法來織.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Wash the white clothes together, and the blue one separately.
- 那些白衣服放在一起洗, 這件藍(lán)的要單洗.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The blue car overtook ours.
- 那輛藍(lán)色的汽車超過我們的車子.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Someone has flown off with my blue bag.
- 有人偷走了我的藍(lán)色提包.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Join the blue wool on the end of the gold pattern and work the same stitches into the back.
- 在這金制圖案邊緣織上藍(lán)毛線,在背面也用同樣的方法來織.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- She wanted to buy the orange dress, but we persuaded her that the blue one was more becoming.
- 她想買那件橙色連衣裙, 但我們使她相信藍(lán)色的更合適.
《簡明英漢詞典》