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blue

Word family 
Related topics: Colours
blue1 /bluː/ ●●● S1 W2 adjectiveadj → blew
1  COLOURCChaving the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day 藍色的，蔚藍色的，天藍色的 → navy, navy blue
the blue waters of the lake
藍藍的湖水
dark/light/pale/bright blue
a dark blue raincoat
一件深藍色的雨衣
2  SAD[not before noun] informalSAD/UNHAPPY sad and without hope 憂鬱的，沮喪的，悲觀的 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 〔笑話、故事等〕黃色的，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 費盡唇舌，嘴巴說幹了都沒用
You can tell them till you’re blue in the face, but they’ll still do what they want.
你就算費盡唇舌，他們還是會獨斷獨行。
5. blue with cold especially British EnglishBrECOLD someone who is blue with cold looks extremely cold 凍得發紫
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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 〔因寒冷或呼吸不暢而〕臉色發青
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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，說個沒完
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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 藍色
She nearly always dresses in blue.
她幾乎總是穿藍色的衣服。
the rich greens and blues of the tapestry
挂毯上濃豔的綠色和藍色
2  blues  (also the blues) [uncountableU]APM a slow sad style of music that came from the southern US 布魯斯音樂，藍調音樂〔起源於美國南方的一種緩慢、憂鬱的音樂風格〕
a blues singer
布魯斯歌手
→ rhythm and blues
Examples from the Corpus
blues• a blues singer
3  the blues [plural] informalSAD/UNHAPPY feelings of sadness 憂鬱，沮喪
A lot of women get the blues after the baby is born.
許多婦女産後會感到憂鬱。
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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，突如其來地 → 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 藍色選手〔指牛津或劍橋大學校隊運動員〕；藍色（選手的）榮譽
→ blue
Origin blue1
(1200-1300) Old French blou

See also: blues

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