grey

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grey1 British EnglishBrE, gray American English /ɡreɪ/ S2 W2 adjectiveadj

1 colour 颜色CC having the colour of dark clouds, neither black nor white 灰色的

an old lady with grey hair

头发灰白的老太太

a grey sky

灰色的天空

dark/light grey

dark grey trousers

深灰色的裤子

→ battleship grey , iron-grey, → slate grey at slate1(3)

2 hair 头发DCB having grey hair （有）灰白头发的

go/turn grey

She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.

她是一个高高瘦瘦的女人，头发早早地白了。

3 face 脸FRIGHTENEDTIRED looking pale because you are tired, frightened, or ill 〔由于疲倦、害怕或生病而〕脸色苍白的

grey with

As he listened, his face went grey with shock.

他听着，惊得脸色苍白。

4 boring 乏味的BORING boring and unattractive 单调乏味的 OPP colourful

the grey anonymous men in government offices

政府部门里那些呆板而千篇一律的男人

visions of a grey and empty world

想象中一个空虚无聊的世界

5 weather 天气 if the weather is grey, the sky is full of clouds and the sun is not bright 灰暗的，阴沉的 OPP bright

a grey day

阴沉沉的天

6 of old people 老年人的SS [only before noun] British EnglishBrE connected with old people 老年人的

the grey vote

老年人的选票

7 grey area CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDused to talk about a situation in which something is not clearly a particular thing, so that people are not sure how to deal with it 灰色地带，中间区域〔指难以界定和处理的情况〕

people in the grey area between loyalty and opposition to the government

对政府不支持也不反对的中间派

Examples from the Corpus

grey area• Of course there's a grey area.• There is one type of appeal which falls in the grey area between review and supervision.• It only remains to add that there is - damn it - a thin grey area between the two.• Sometimes a contractual term lies in a grey area between the two.• Human beings can't live on grey areas for ever - unless it enters their soul.• There were grey areas in what she had told him - or rather allowed him to believe.• Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it.• There are far too many grey areas with endless different interpretations open to every side.

—greyness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

grey• By the time he'd finished shifting the chairs, he was wearing grey gloves and a wig.• A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people.• Immature grey on head and neck with smaller grey ear tufts.• the grey power movement in Britain• He went over to the grey shapes that had been silently watching throughout.• A large grey stone mansion, surrounded by rhododendrons.• The grey tenements walled in the space completely.• Conservatives have started to realize that they cannot take the grey vote for granted.• It was a grey winter morning.

dark/light grey• The darker grey cravat made his eyes look bluer, his skin more tanned.• But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket, looks as cool as a cucumber.• She was blocky under her dark grey muu-muu.• It was a pretty worn dark grey one, but it fit him all right.• The interior styling is sombre; apart from the headlining and plush seat facings everything is either dark grey or black.• She had pinned a bunch of violets on her bonnet and put new, light grey ribbons on it.• I put on a dark grey suit with a fine stripe, a grey woollen tie and a soft white shirt.• Oxford mixture, dark grey woollen cloth.

go/turn grey• And that is the moment when you begin to decide what you are going to do about going grey.• Britain became an elderly nation before others started to turn grey.• For example: Joan is going grey.• When had her hair gone grey?• If you are going grey, don't try to recapture the dark brown you were 20 years ago.• Many women who go grey early maintain the looks that belong to their real age by having their hair colour-rinsed.• And what about our attitudes to beauty: will you go grey or would you rather dye?• Anna Thomson Jane Green, 25, has been slowly going grey since she was 20.

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