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BNC: 1083 COCA: 842

blue

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Related topics: Colours
blue1 /bluː/ ●●● S1 W2 adjectiveadj   → blew
1  COLOURCChaving the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day 蓝色的，蔚蓝色的，天蓝色的 → navy, navy blue
 the blue waters of the lake
蓝蓝的湖水
dark/light/pale/bright blue
 a dark blue raincoat
一件深蓝色的雨衣
2  SAD[not before noun] informalSAD/UNHAPPY sad and without hope 忧郁的，沮丧的，悲观的 SYN depressed
 I’ve been feeling kind of blue.
我心情不大好。
3. SEXY informal blue jokes, stories etc are about sex, in a way that might offend some people 〔笑话、故事等〕黄色的，色情的 → blue movie
4  argue/talk etc till you’re blue in the face informalLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT to argue, talk etc about something a lot, but without achieving what you want 费尽唇舌，嘴巴说干了都没用
 You can tell them till you’re blue in the face, but they’ll still do what they want.
你就算费尽唇舌，他们还是会独断独行。
5. blue with cold especially British EnglishBrECOLD someone who is blue with cold looks extremely cold 冻得发紫
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blue with cold• Doug emerges from the cabin looking blue with cold.• Gerda approached Kay, who was blue with cold but oblivious to his predicament because of the ice in his heart.• Ben, naked except for the strait-jacket, and blue with cold, was heaving and struggling and bellowing.
6. go blue British EnglishBrECOLD if someone goes blue, their skin becomes blue because they are cold or cannot breathe properly 〔因寒冷或呼吸不畅而〕脸色发青
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go blue• I could have threatened to hold my breath until I went blue.• The baby boy went blue after his lungs became blocked.• Celia came down holding the baby, who had gone blue and stopped breathing.• You rolled around, went blue and your eyes shot up into your head.• Strictly speaking, yes, it would tend to go blue ever so slightly.• Do not put the bandage on too tight or you may find your fingers or toes going blue through lack of circulation.
7. talk a blue streak TALK TO somebody American EnglishAmE informal to talk very quickly without stopping 喋喋不休，说个没完
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talk a blue streak• He had a wicked tongue when roused and could talk a blue streak.• I was talking a blue streak.
—blueness noun [uncountableU]
→ black and blue, → once in a blue moon at once1(15), → scream blue murder at scream1(1)
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blue• Thousands of fertilized sea urchin eggs, starfish and blue clams returned to Earth with the astronauts.• Inside this box, the hot, red upwellings of the mantle moved past cold, blue downwellings.• Carrie's bright blue eyes mirrored her good health and she hummed happily to herself as she brushed down her best coat.• Her jokes are too blue for most audiences.• The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket, a blue jumper and jeans.• blue language• There are blue laws and blue movies.• I found the kids watching a blue movie on the video last night.• Quills of blue smoke rose out of the swinging ball.• a dark blue sweater
dark/light/pale/bright blue• Just like the familiar bedding forget-me-not, but perennial and with softer hairless leaves. Bright blue.• Not boring white or dark blue broadcloth, but in an explosion of colors and fabrics, from stretch denim to corduroy.• Behind the mask of her dark blue eyes lurked horror and shock, perhaps even guilt.• Already the moon was up, a full moon bathing everything in a pale blue light.• It is divided horizontally by color with bright blue on the head and back and yellow on the stomach and tail.• There he saw a dark green car near the entrance with a light blue one behind it.• But he had no trouble with the light blue ribbons.• We dressed him in his best dark blue suit, light blue shirt and red tie.
Related topics: Colours
blue2 ●●● S3 W3 noun  
1  [countableC, uncountableU]CC the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day 蓝色
 She nearly always dresses in blue.
她几乎总是穿蓝色的衣服。
 the rich greens and blues of the tapestry
挂毯上浓艳的绿色和蓝色
2  blues  (also the blues) [uncountableU]APM a slow sad style of music that came from the southern US 布鲁斯音乐，蓝调音乐〔起源于美国南方的一种缓慢、忧郁的音乐风格〕
 a blues singer
布鲁斯歌手
→ rhythm and blues
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blues• a blues singer
3  the blues [plural] informalSAD/UNHAPPY feelings of sadness 忧郁，沮丧
 A lot of women get the blues after the baby is born.
许多妇女产后会感到忧郁。
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the blues• That s why everybody digs the blues.• The blonde midfield ace scored two quickfire goals in a minute to rescue this opening Gold Cup tie for the Blues.• Or as Gay Byrne knows, even Catholic housewives get the blues.• I often get the blues in February, before the spring arrives.• A lot of women get the blues after the baby is born.• Most people know what it's like to have the Monday morning blues.• It's very common for new mothers to have a fit of the blues after giving birth.• The elegant spring spires of delphiniums are perhaps the truest of the blues.• Her voice was good and strong and the sound - she sang the blues - shivered through the house like a charge.• You want the blues? asked Pryor, leaning back in his chair.• Louis, Gretzky said he has had no conversations with the Blues.
4. out of the blue informalEXPECT if something happens out of the blue, it is very unexpected 出乎意料地，突如其来地 → a bolt from/out of the blue at bolt1(3)
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out of the blue• Out of the blue, he asked me to come with him to Europe.• Symptoms of the disease often appear out of the blue.• They just came around, out of the blue, to try and hurt me.• And now here was a shiny new fence, built out of the blue while our backs were turned.• Do you remember Jane? Well, she phoned me yesterday, completely out of the blue.• Then, too, his thinking had hardly dropped out of the blue.• One evening, Angela phoned me out of the blue and said she was in some kind of trouble.• It came to me out of the blue.• She told me, out of the blue, that she was going to live in New York.• It was totally out of the blue.• The pair are travelling in their caravan when a sinister family pitches up out of the blue.• Now you turn up out of the blue talking about us like we were a Lionel Ritchie lyric.• Even with a mysterious ex-lover who had turned up out of the blue after more than sixteen years' absence.
n5. → Blue
6. the blue literaryDNAL the sea or the sky 海洋；天空 → boys in blue at boy1(9)
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blue• Expect thunder, expect lightning, expect country and blues and rock and expect him to offer the unexpected, too.• On the other hand, blue and green are subdued and bring calm to a garden.• Carolyn's the one dressed in blue.• From the heart of a large flat pebble-shaped stone he has revealed two fishes in brilliant, iridescent blues.• His eyes are a washed-out blue.• He saw a woman in the rich blue of a nursing uniform at the wheel.• I especially like the rich blues and reds of the painting.• Come to think of it, Columbia wouldn't have been around if it hadn't been for the blues.• The elegant spring spires of delphiniums are perhaps the truest of the blues.• These good ole boys could turn the blues into a rainbow.
Blue
[countableC] British EnglishBrESEC someone who has represented Oxford or Cambridge University at a sport, or the title given to such a person 蓝色选手〔指牛津或剑桥大学校队运动员〕；蓝色（选手的）荣誉
→ blue
Origin blue1
(1200-1300) Old French blou
blue1 adjectiveadjblue2 nounBlue
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BNC: 1083 COCA: 842
blue

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ADJECTIVE➤aqua, azure, baby, cerulean, cobalt, electric, ice, icy, midnight, navy, pastel, powder, royal, sapphire, sky, teal, turquoise (especially NAmE) 藍綠色（的）；蔚藍色（的）；嬰兒藍（的）；天藍色（的）；鈷藍色（的）；鐵青色（的）；冰藍色（的）；黑藍色（的）；藏青色（的）；菘藍色（的）；粉藍色（的）；品藍色（的）；寶石藍色（的）；鳧藍色（的）；綠松石色（的）◇a navy blue sweater藏青色毛衣  ➡ topic at colour
BNC: 1083 COCA: 842
BNC: 1083 COCA: 842
blue
Words used to describe specific colours: alabaster, amber, amethyst...
Feeling sad or unhappy: sad, unhappy, gloomy...
Describing offensive language: dirty, obscene, abusive...
Relating or referring to sex and sexual activity: sexual, romantic, animal...
Colours: apricot, aqua, aquamarine...
Players and positions in various sports: all-American, A. N. Other, back...
Arguments: argument, disagreement, conflict...

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