| 单词 | blue |
| 释义 | blue (bluː ) Word forms: bluer , bluest , blues 1. colour A1 Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day. There were swallows in the cloudless blue sky. She fixed her pale blue eyes on her father's. ...colourful blues and reds. 2. plural noun The blues is a type of music which was developed by African American musicians in the southern United States. It is characterized by a slow tempo and a strong rhythm. His singing really does have the depth and the emotional range of the blues. ...the blues bars of Chicago. 3. plural noun If you have got the blues, you feel sad and depressed. [informal] He's been suffering from the blues since losing his job. 4. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you are feeling blue, you are feeling sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason. [informal] There's no earthly reason for me to feel so blue. Synonyms: depressed, low, sad, unhappy 5. countable noun [usually supplement NOUN] A Cambridge blue or an Oxford blue is a man or woman who has played for Cambridge or Oxford University in a particular sport. [British] 6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Blue films, stories, or jokes are about sex. ...a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies. Synonyms: smutty, dirty, naughty, obscene 7. out of the blue phrase If something happens out of the blue, it happens unexpectedly. One of them wrote to us out of the blue several years later. 8. bolt from the blue phrase If a piece of news comes like a bolt from the blue, it is completely unexpected and very surprising. The company decided to appoint a Japanese manager as president of the company. The decision came as a bolt from the blue. 9. blue moon phrase If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all. [emphasis] Once in a blue moon you get some problems. 10. blue murder phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like. [informal, emphasis] People are screaming blue murder about the amount of traffic going through their town. Idioms: someone can do something until they are blue in the face said to mean that however long someone does something or however hard they try, they will still fail You can speculate till you're blue in the face, but you can't prove a thing. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers be between the devil and the deep blue sea [mainly British] to be in a difficult situation where the two possible courses of action or choices that you can take are equally bad We are between the devil and the deep blue sea: if we pay our rent, we won't have any money for food. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a bolt from the blue or a bolt out of the blue an event or piece of news that surprises you because it was completely unexpected Mrs Thomas says the arrest had come `like a bolt out of the blue'. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers out of the blue unexpectedly Turner's resignation came out of the blue in the aftermath of his team's 3-0 defeat at Portsmouth. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers black and blue badly bruised I spent that night in hospital and was released the next day with minor head and neck injuries. My face was black and blue. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers out of a clear blue sky completely unexpectedly Out of a clear blue sky and after 34 months of successive increases, unemployment has dropped by 22,000. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers talk a blue streak [US] to talk a lot and very fast Although I'm usually shy, that night I talked a blue streak from the moment I arrived at the party. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers light the blue touch paper or light the touch paper to do something which causes other people to react in an angry or aggressive way This kind of remark is guaranteed to light the blue touch paper with some Labour politicians. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers into the wide blue yonder or into the wild blue yonder on a journey to a faraway place which is unfamiliar or mysterious Sailing into the wide blue yonder, Colin discovers his very own Treasure Island. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers once in a blue moon very rarely I only get over to Cambridge once in a blue moon and I'm never in London. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers scream blue murder [British] to make a lot of noise or fuss about something People are screaming blue murder about the amount of traffic going through their town. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: blue denim He sported a floppy bucket hat, usually the same blue denim one with its rusty pallor from the sun. Times, Sunday Times I recall he was wearing a blue denim jacket. The Sun Layer your lines in different sizes and shades, or team them with blue denim separates for a chic daytime look. The Sun It also works well with blue denim - see it as a berry compote. Times, Sunday Times My first piece was a blue denim jumpsuit with studs on the waistband. Times, Sunday Times She didn't see the make-up - blue eye shadow. Times, Sunday Times I have an odd relationship with my heterochromia [one blue eye, one green eye]. Times,Sunday Times On his face he had foundation and blue eye shadow. The Sun Bizarrely, he was also wearing blue eye shadow and foundation. The Sun Could she soon be packing away the blue eye shadow for good and heading back to the present? Times, Sunday Times His feathers shone turquoise, lit all down the spine with a brightness, a blue flame, a blaze of some magic gathered from the sky. Times, Sunday Times The first stage ignites this beautiful blue flame. Christianity Today Check appliances have a crisp blue flame, rather than orange or yellow, and beware a pilot light that always seems to blow out. Times, Sunday Times Crucially, their vantage point afforded them a side-on view at an angle where they alone were able to see a blue flame running across the top of the airship. Times, Sunday Times Methane burns with a blue flame when mixed with air. Times, Sunday Times The torn page written in blue ink fetched 23,750, almost three times its estimate. Times, Sunday Times I wrote my name in the front in determined blue ink, but smudged it a bit. Times, Sunday Times He peers inside at the pen pocket, revealing a blue ink stain on the silk lining. Times, Sunday Times And on it were a few paragraphs of scribbled writing, capital letters only, in blue ink with the odd crossing out. Times, Sunday Times These words, written in blue ink, are the stark message that opens this imaginative first novel, and mark the start of the journey at its heart. Times, Sunday Times He claims to be 'an enthusiastic, but poor, guitarist' with 'a passion for blues music', but there ought to be no need for a plaintive lament at the moment. Times, Sunday Times His interests reveal his love of classic rock and blues music. Times, Sunday Times They were not merely brilliant musicians fusing avant-garde influences with rhythm and blues music. Times, Sunday Times The band combines hard rock, blues and other influences into a blend of stoner rock/blues music they call their own. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He grew up listening to and playing rock and blues music, and was first exposed to hip hop in the late-80s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Naturally, he'd written a blues song about the return of his instrument, all squealing guitar and careworn humour. Times, Sunday Times No other band had taken a blues song and done that back then. The Sun In a jazz or blues song, the tonic chord may be a dominant seventh chord. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lyrics, too, can seem as melancholy as the darkest and dankest of blues songs. Times, Sunday Times West side blues incorporated elements of blues-rock but with a greater emphasis on standards and traditional blues song forms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He sings the blues, sways back and forth, and he played a few chords then sang some more and thumps... his foot on the floor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She began singing the blues in the early 1980s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At an early age he showed unusual gifts singing the blues and accompanying himself on the piano. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Now you can sing the blues. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 蓝色的 Japanese: 青い |
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