| 单词 | purple |
| 释义 | Related topics: Colourspur·ple1 /ˈpɜːpəl $ ˈpɜːr-/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [uncountable] CCa dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue 紫色Examples from the Corpuspurple• There is a huge range of colours, from an almost black purple, through red, orange, yellow and white.• Later something else purple takes on an even deeper significance.• I read the few sentences printed in purple on the leaf of pale yellow paper.• One year after his discovery, the flamboyant Empress Eugenie decided that purple would be the colour for the season.• Amid all the purple, there was cardinal and gold, spilling from guts and pouring from hearts.• Her hair is wild black grass, diluted to purple across her brow.purple2 ●●● S3 W3 adjective 1. having a dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue 紫色的2 purple with rage/purple in the face etc HBHwith a face that is dark red, caused by anger 气得脸色发紫 His face turned purple with rage. 他气得脸色发紫。3 purple patch a time when you are very successful – used especially in news reports 处于顺境的日子〔尤用于新闻报道〕 Steve’s purple patch continued with a second victory on Tuesday. 史蒂夫继续一帆风顺，周二获得了第二次胜利。4. purple prose/passage ALwriting that uses difficult or unusual words – used to show disapproval 辞藻堆砌的散文/过于雕饰的段落〔含贬义〕Examples from the Corpuspurple• Barney Orlansky was purple and gold from head to toe -- hat, shirt and high-top shoes in Lakers colors.• On the live Bishop the silver pectoral cross rose and fell on the purple cassock.• A tall black-haired woman in a purple robe opened it.• The air hostesses on the flight to Bangkok wear pink and purple sarongs with gold borders, western eye-makeup, smiles.• Their heads were the only two not covered with purple shrouds, Blackbourne said.• It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which some one had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars.• Above them, the sky is purple with twilight.Origin purple (900-1000) Latin purpura, from Greek porphyra type of shellfish from which purple coloring was obtainedpur·ple1 nounpurple2 adjectiveChineseSyllable that a a mixture of colour Corpus is dark red and |
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