blue

英 [bluː] 美 [bluː]

• adj. 蓝色的；忧郁的；沮丧的；色情的
• n. 蓝色

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 蓝色的,蔚蓝的

   having the colour of a clear sky or the sea on a sunny day

2. [P]沮丧的,忧郁的

   sad; depressed

n. (名词)

1. [U][C]蓝色,蔚蓝; 青色

   having the colour of a clear sky or the sea on a sunny day

2. [P]忧郁

   the state of being sad; a feeling of deep unhappiness

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)变成蓝色,给…上蓝剂

   (make) azure

2. vt. 挥霍,乱花钱

   spend money freely or wastefully

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 蓝色的，天蓝色的，蔚蓝色的
2. 忧郁的
3. <口>猥亵的 ，色情的，黄色的，下流的
4. 愁闷的
5. 沮丧的
6. 青灰色的，青色的
7. 清教徒的

n. 名词

1. 蓝色，天蓝色，蔚蓝色
2. 蓝色颜料，蓝色染料
3. 布鲁斯乐曲
4. 青色
5. 蓝色荣誉者
6. 蓝色荣誉的头衔
7. 出乎意料，突然，晴天霹雳
8. 蓝布
9. <澳俚>打斗
10. 碧空，苍天，青天
11. （沧）海
12. 穿蓝制服的人联邦军
13. 布卢是美国制造的驱逐舰

v. 动词

1. 使成蓝色，使变蓝色，呈蓝色
2. 把...染成天青色， 给...上蓝，用上蓝剂于
3. 浪费

英英释义

Noun:

1. blue color or pigment; resembling 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 butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

Adjective:

1. 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"
   

2. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms);

   "a ragged blue line"
   

3. 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"
   

4. characterized by profanity or cursing;

   "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
   "blue language"
   "profane words"
   

5. 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"
   

6. 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"
   

7. morally rigorous and strict;

   "the puritan work ethic"
   "puritanic distaste for alcohol"
   "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
   

8. 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:

1. turn blue

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. She wore a dark blue coat.
   她穿着一件深蓝色的上衣。
2. The pots are made with blue enamel.
   这些锅上有蓝色的搪瓷。
3. Someone has flown off with my blue bag.
   有人把我那蓝色的包偷拿走了。
4. I'm feeling blue today.
   我今天的心情不好。
5. The thundery weather make me blue.
   雷雨欲来的天气让我忧郁。
6. Often, when it rains, Marty feels blue.
   一下雨，玛琪就会变得忧郁。
7. It really is blue Monday after a wonderful weekend.
   过了愉快的周末之后，星期一〔要上班〕实在是令人沮丧。
8. His girl friend was blue about not being invited to the dance party yesterday.
   他的女朋友昨天因未被邀请参加舞会而沮丧。
9. They were caught showing blue films in the theater and were arrested by the police.
   他们在戏院放映色情电影被查到，并遭警方逮捕。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The color scheme of the room is blue and gold.
   这个房间的色彩配置是蓝色和金黄色。
2. On this chart, the erector is marked in blue.
   在这张图上竖立肌以蓝色标志。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. The clear water mirrored the blue sky.
   清澈的水面倒映出蓝色的天空。
2. The blue sky belongs equally to us all.
   蓝天为世人所共有。
3. White clouds swam in the blue sky.
   白云在蓝天上飘浮。
4. The Monument to the People's Heroes stands sharp against the blue sky.
   在蓝天的衬托下人民英雄纪念碑显得格外清晰。
5. Red flags stand out brightly, set against the blue sky.
   红旗在蓝天的映衬下显得分外鲜艳。
6. The mountain is relieved against the blue sky.
   在蓝天的映衬下,这座山轮廓分明。
7. He saw the grey summit of the mountain against a brilliant background of blue sky.
   他看到在明亮的蔚蓝天空的背景下的灰色山峰。
8. The sea, blue and still, was spread before us.
   蓝色平静的大海展现在我们面前。
9. Put the potatoes in the blue dish.
   把土豆放到那只蓝盘子中。
10. The white plate is banded with a blue line round the edge.
    白盘子加了一圈蓝边。
11. The blue car overtook ours.
    那辆蓝色的汽车超过我们的车子。
12. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
    蓝鲸是世界上最大的动物。
13. Join the blue wool on the end of the gold pattern and work the same stitches into the back.
    在这金制图案边缘织上蓝毛线,在背面也用同样的方法来织。
14. This light blue sweater becomes her very well.
    她适于穿这件浅蓝色毛衣。
15. Angela is modelling an attractive blue silk dress.
    安吉拉做时装模特儿向顾客展示一种漂亮的蓝色丝绸服装。
16. The curtains have white flowers on a blue ground.
    窗帘是蓝底白花的。
17. I asked the shop assistant to measure off two metres of blue corduroy for me.
    我叫营业员给我量两米蓝灯芯绒。
18. The yellow curtains contrast with the blue bedcover.
    黄色窗帘与蓝色床罩形成对照。
19. I am only taking two dresses on holiday, so I will have to alternate the green dress with the blue one.
    我只带着两件衣服度假,所以只能绿的和蓝的替换着穿。
20. “Which of the two cars do you like better?”I asked Peter.“The blue one or the red one?”
    “那两辆车中你喜欢哪一辆?”我问彼得,“那辆蓝的还是红的?”
21. She wanted to buy the orange dress, but we persuaded her that the blue one was more becoming.
    她想买那件橙色连衣裙,但我们使她相信蓝色的更合适。
22. Let's set some white flowers among the blue ones.
    咱们在蓝色的花中间插一些白花吧。
23. The blue coat belongs to Mary.
    那件蓝色外衣是玛丽的。
24. Peter decided on a blue sweater.
    彼得选定了一件蓝色的运动衫。
25. The blue umbrella belongs to my brother.
    那把蓝色的伞是我兄弟的。
26. It is difficult to tell where the blue melts into the green.
    很难说蓝色是在什么地方变成绿色的了。
27. The blue flame of the exhaust stabbed the darkness.
    排气口的蓝色火焰划破黑暗。
28. Combine blue paint and yellow paint.
    将蓝颜料和黄颜料混在一起。
29. We decided to decorate the bedroom with blue paint and a gold paper.
    我们决定用蓝漆和一种金色纸装饰卧室。
30. The artist mixed blue with yellow paint to produce the green colour he wanted.
    这位画家把蓝色的颜料和黄色的颜料拌和起来,配成他需要的绿颜色。
31. She messed up her new dress with blue ink.
    蓝墨水弄脏了她的新衣服。
32. The blue team was defeated by the red team.
    蓝队被红队击败。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. The sky is bright blue.
   天空呈蔚蓝色。
2. The primary colours are red, blue, and yellow.
   原色是红色、蓝色、黄色。
3. The sky was dark blue and clear when the moon came up.
   月亮出来时,天空是深蓝色的,非常晴朗。
4. 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。
5. One end is blue, one end is red, and the colours merge in the middle.
   一端为蓝色,一端为红色,这两种颜色在中间混成一色。
6. Myra has felt blue ever since her boyfriend left for Shanghai.
   自从男朋友去了上海以后,迈拉一直闷闷不乐。
7. You're looking blue, what's the matter?
   你看起来挺忧愁,怎么回事?
8. I've felt blue all day.
   我整天闷闷不乐。
9. Gara felt blue when he reread Mary's letters.
   加拉重读玛丽的那些信时,心情很不好。
10. There's often no reason for feeling blue, so we sometimes blame it on the weather.
    我们常常无缘无故地感到忧郁,于是时而就抱怨起天气来。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

1. She ran and ran until she was blue in the face.
   她跑啊跑啊,直到脸色发青才停下来。
2. His face was blue with cold.
   他的脸冻得发青。
3. He was blue over his dismissal.
   他因被解雇而情绪低落。

用作宾语补足语

S+V+O+～

1. I had my hair dyed blue.
   我把头发染成蓝色。
2. He painted the door blue.
   他把门漆成蓝色。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The blue shaded off into grey.
   这种蓝色逐渐变成灰色了。
2. She specified blue for the bedroom windows.
   她指定卧室的窗户用蓝色。
3. These shirts come in three different colours: white, pale blue and khaki.
   这种衬衫有三种颜色:白的、浅蓝的、土黄的。
4. If you mix blue and yellow you will make green.
   如果你把蓝色和黄色掺在一起,就会得到绿色。
5. Green results from blending blue and yellow.
   把蓝色和黄色掺起来方可成绿色。
6. Some people find it difficult to discern between blue and green.
   有些人很难分辨蓝色与绿色。
7. I prefer red to blue.
   我喜欢红色而不喜欢蓝色。
8. She looks very pretty in pale blue.
   她穿着浅蓝色的衣服,看起来很漂亮。
9. He was in blue.
   他穿一身蓝。
10. These two blues are quite different.
    这两种蓝色完全不同。
11. The yellow one is nice, but I think I'll have a blue.
    黄的不错,不过我想我还是要一个蓝的吧。
12. A plane is flying in the blue.
    飞机飞行在蓝天上。
13. She has been in the blues these days.
    在那些天里,她心情忧郁。
14. She has cried the blues about its financial woes.
    对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Several metres of cloth has blued.
   有几米布变蓝了。
2. The sky of city has blued now.
   现在,城市上空的天已经变蓝了。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. She wanted to blue a soft cloth.
   她想使一块软布变成蓝色。
2. He blued 9000 yuan in a holiday.
   他一个假期就挥霍了9000元。
3. He has blued all his money.
   他把所有的钱都挥霍了。
4. He blues a lot of money on entertaining friends.
   他把许多钱挥霍在款待朋友上。
5. She blued 4000 dollars at a restaurant one day.
   她有一天在一家饭馆挥霍了4000美元。
6. As soon as he won all that money, he blued it.
   他一赢得那笔钱就挥霍起来。

经典引文

• The blue of distance, however intense, is not the blue of a bright blue flower.

  出自： J. Ruskin

• My bluest veins to kiss.

  出自：Anthony Cleopatra , Shakespeare

• The blue smoke of brittle leaves.

  出自： Scott Fitzgerald

• Eyes as blue as the kingfisher's wing.

  出自： C. Mackenzie

• A great plain between blue hills.

  出自： L. van der Post

• 'Can I borrow a blue pencil?' 'Blue for the sea or blue for the sky?'

  出自： I. McEwan

常用短语

用作形容词 (adj.)

a blue moon

很长时间 long time

black and blue

青一块紫一块 covered with bruises

cry blue murder

大声惊呼,大惊小怪地叫喊 cry out in alarm

用作名词 (n.)

a bolt from the blue

意想不到的事,使人吃惊的事 sth taken sb by surprise

out of the blue

出其不意; 出乎意料 take sb by surprise; unusually

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

副词+～

• dark blue 深蓝
• pale blue 浅蓝

～+名词

• blue baby 青紫婴儿
• blue background 蔚蓝的背景
• blue bedcover 蓝色床罩
• blue blood 名门出身
• blue book 蓝皮书
• blue box 蓝盒子
• blue button 交易所的低级职员
• blue car 蓝色的汽车
• blue cheese 蓝奶酪
• blue coat 蓝色外衣
• blue dahlia 稀罕物
• blue dish 蓝盘子
• blue film 色情电影
• blue flags 蓝旗
• blue flame 蓝色火焰
• blue funk 极端的恐惧
• blue joke 低级趣味的笑话
• blue language 下流语言
• blue law 蓝色法规
• blue line 蓝边
• blue Monday 烦闷(相对于星期日的欢乐而言)
• blue paint 蓝颜料
• blue ribbon 一等奖
• blue silk dress 蓝色丝绸服装
• blue sky 蓝天
• blue song 惆怅之歌
• blue stocking 女学者；才女
• blue story 下流故事
• blue sweater 蓝色毛衣
• blue talk 淫秽之谈
• blue team 蓝队
• blue umbrella 蓝色的伞
• blue water 大海,沧海
• blue whale 蓝鲸
• blue wool 蓝毛线

动词+～

• beat black and blue 把…打得青一块紫一块
• fall blue 闷闷不乐
• look blue 看起来挺忧愁
• turn blue in the face 精疲力竭

～+介词

• blue from the cold 冻得发紫
• blue in the face 脸色发紫
• blue with cold 冻得发青

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• blend blue and yellow 把蓝色和黄色掺起来
• cry the blues 叫苦不迭
• prefer blue 喜欢蓝色
• shade off into blue 逐渐变成蓝色
• specify blue 指定蓝色

介词+～

• bolt from the blue 意想不到使人吃惊的事
• in pale blue 浅蓝色
• in the blue 在蓝天上
• in the blues 心情忧郁
• out of the blue 出其不意

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• blue foolishly 愚蠢地挥霍
• blue profusely 大量地挥霍
• blue rashly 轻率地挥霍

词语用法

adj. (形容词)

1. blue的基本意思是“蓝色的”,指晴天里天空或是海洋的颜色,即“蔚蓝的”“青色的”,在句中可用作定语、表语或补语。
2. blue用于比喻可指“沮丧的”“忧郁的”,指灰心失望或愁闷忧伤,通常置于be, look, feel等系动词之后,用作表语。
3. blue与joke, song, talk, language, story等名词搭配具有贬义或消极的意义。
4. blue作“蓝色的”解时不用于比较等级。

n. (名词)

1. blue用作名词时意思是“蓝色”,即颜色同晴天天空或海洋的颜色。
2. blue多用作不可数名词,也可用作可数名词,尤其是表示某种形式的蓝色时。
3. blue在句中可用作主语或宾语。
4. blue前习惯加定冠词the,表示“蓝天”“大海”等。
5. blue的复数形式blues可表示“情绪忧伤”等,常与定冠词the连用, in the blues的意思是“心情忧郁”。
6. cry the blues的意思是“哭穷”“叫苦”。

v. (动词)

1. blue用作动词时意思是“(使)变成蓝色”“给…上蓝剂”,指把原来并非蓝色的物质通过上蓝色剂而使之变成蓝色。既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。
2. blue引申可表示“挥霍”“乱花钱”,指人不合理地使用、花费金钱,以至于造成浪费,只用作及物动词,且只能以人作主语,多用在英国俚语中。

词义辨析

adj. (形容词)

下面各组中的短语意思不同:

• a blue bird 蓝色的鸟
• a bluebird 知更鸟
• a blue coat 蓝色上衣
• a bluecoat 穿蓝色制服者
• a blue jacket 蓝色夹克
• a bluejacket 水兵,水手
• a blue stone 蓝色的石头
• a bluestone 胆矾

n. (名词)

下面两句话的意思不同:

• She was in blue.
• 她身穿蓝色衣服。
• She was in blues.
• 她闷闷不乐。

sad，unhappy，gloomy，blue，sorrowful，melancholy

• 这些形容词均含“忧伤的，悲哀的，伤感的”之意。
• sad最常用词，泛指一切形式的悲伤，着重暂时的不幸或感觉的忧伤。
• unhappy多指日常生活中遇到不如意的事而感到不愉快、不幸，侧重指心理状态。
• gloomy指愁眉苦脸，令他人也感到扫兴。
• blue非正式用词，语气较随便，指较强烈的忧郁或沮丧。
• sorrowful多指因丧失亲人等原因所引起的悲哀，也指由于错误而产生的悔恨交加的心情。
• melancholy指经常性的忧郁或悲哀，多用于文学描写中。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自中古英语的bleu，意为蓝色的。

近反义词

【近义词】

• dejected
• depress
• gloomy
• miserable
• sad
• unhappy
• sapphire
• blow

【反义词】

• cheerful
• happy
• optimistic
• merry
• economize
• save