时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   基本的颜色,英语你一定会。但是这些颜色所代表的含义,你了解吗?比如黄色、绿色、蓝色、红色......?今天,我们就学一下!


  关键词:
  Blue:忧郁
  Blue=melancholy 1: 蓝色是忧郁
  怎么用?
  I'm feeling a bit blue
  You look blue
  I've got the blues 2
  Melancholy: 忧郁
  Melancholic 3: 忧郁的
  The music style blues has a melancholic feeling: 蓝调音乐这个名字也源于它忧郁的特质
  You look blue doesn't mean you look like an Avatar character: “你看上去有点儿蓝”不是说你看着像阿凡达里的人物
  Someone beat you "black & blue" means you have bruises 4: 被打得鼻青脸肿
  Green #1 : 嫉妒
  Green with envy: 艳慕嫉妒恨
  英语谚语:
  Jealousy 5 is a green-eyed monster: 嫉妒是个绿眼睛的魔鬼
  Green #2: 青涩
  绿色还有一个含义:
  Green: 青涩
  比如:
  I'm new to the job. I'm still a bit green: 我刚来上班,还很青涩
  Red: danger, anger, losing money
  Red is China's most symbolic 6 color: 红色是最能象征中国的色
  It represents good luck: 吉祥色
  Red in the West represents the strongest emotions, often negative: 但是在西方,红色常和激烈的情绪连系在一起,尤其是负面的
  比如
  Danger: 危险
  Anger: 愤怒
  In the red: 亏损
  股指一片红,在中国是涨、在美国是跌
  In the stock market, red means going up in Chinese: 红色在中国股市代表涨
  But it means going down in the West: 在西方国家是跌
  黄色在英语里竟是这个意思!
  再来一对对比色
  Black represents evil and death: 黑色代表邪恶、死亡
  Black widow: 黑寡妇
  White represents holiness and purity: 白色代表圣洁
  People wear white to weddings, not red: 希望婚礼,大家会穿白色,不是红色
  Also baby's christening: 去小宝宝的洗礼,也是白色
  White doesn't mean bad luck: 白色不是不吉利
  紫和黄有什么关系?
  Purple represents courage and bravery: 紫色代表勇气、勇敢
  The Purple Heart is one of the highest medals in the US military: 美国的紫心勋章,是表彰军人最高荣誉的奖章之一
  Yellow represents cowardliness: 黄色代表懦弱
  学个俚语:
  A yellow bellied 7 coward: 黄肚子的胆小鬼
  He's such a yellow belly 8: 他真是个懦夫
  Beautiful colors, beautiful names
  英语颜色高阶版
  比如同样是蓝色,色调不同,名字也不同!
  Teal: 水鸭色、青绿色
  Indigo 9: 靛色
  Mid 10 night blue: 午夜蓝
  是不是名字和颜色一样美!
  这个颜色,也有个诗意的名字:
  Burnt sienna: 硃红
  不过在男性native speaker的词典中,只有:
  Brownish orange:带点儿咖啡的橘色

n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的
  • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
  • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷。
n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐
  • She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
  • He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。
忧郁症患者
  • A absurd tragedy accompany a melancholic song by the Tiger Lillies. 一出荒诞的悲剧,在泰戈莱利斯犹豫的歌声中缓缓上演。
  • I have never heard her sing a melancholic song. 我从来没有听她唱过忧伤的曲子。
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.妒忌,嫉妒,猜忌
  • Some women have a disposition to jealousy.有些女人生性爱妒忌。
  • I can't support your jealousy any longer.我再也无法忍受你的嫉妒了。
adj.象征性的,符号的,象征主义的
  • It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  • The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
adj.有腹的,大肚子的
  • That big-bellied fellow was very cruel and greedy. 那个大腹便便的家伙既贪婪又残恶。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The ship's sails bellied in the wind. 船帆在风中鼓得大大的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛
  • The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
  • His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。
n.靛青,靛蓝
  • The sky was indigo blue,and a great many stars were shining.天空一片深蓝,闪烁着点点繁星。
  • He slipped into an indigo tank.他滑落到蓝靛桶中。
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
学英语单词
absorbability
acetoacetamide
assiduously
basementless
beach bunny
brachyscelus crusculum
Byzantinist
canchalagua
canyonside
Coastal Command
comburant
convolution of two functions
current working estimate
curriculum differentiation
cypraea globulus
DAML
data base save (dbs)
dodge the column
economics of inequality
electron-deficient species
emblem mark
entropy generation
equiprimordial
Espéraza
evadite
Exception of Container Insurance
expected profitability
field pick up
Firavahana
flattened round broach
Foundation Day
francois duvaliers
gasoline cock
Ginaton
handball glove
hawaladar
hencoop
herria
heterochelate
homotrimers
insect anatomy
integumentary gill
investment-research
larceners
light loam soil
lighting layout
major client
major-league
meakins
mealiness
montalban
mouse typhus
Ndialakhar
New York State Barge Canal
non-reciprocal polarization rotator
nsutite
number of tracks
obvele
off return memory
open-ended limits
optical antennas
osteometrics
pate frit
pellumina
performance synthesis
planar control grid
Populus nigra L.
pro-commonwealth
put the seal on
putty-chaser-type mixer
quinonyl
recce flare
Reg Grundys
regenerating circuit
schicklgruber
self setting silicate systems
signalities
social accounting analysis
solid-liquid cyclone
sozo-
srimuang
strandmen
strict constructionism
superregeneration reception
swell measurement
switch capsule
symblepharon
synsacrums
Tamarindo, B.
Taysoygan, Peski
Tertran
three-quarter sibling
tidewater stream
tropological
truffula
truth condition
veal roast
VHF solid-state TV tuner
vojtas
wetterh?rner (wetterhorn)
what do you mean by...?
wrong-foot