grey

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基本釋義

n.
灰色
adj.
灰色的; 頭發(fā)灰白的; 蒼白的; 昏暗的; 沉悶的; 單調乏味的; 老年人的
v.
變灰白

詞性變化

實用例句

a tall woman with greying hair

頭發(fā)漸白的高個子女人

牛津詞典

His hair was greying at the sides.

他的兩鬢已漸漸斑白。

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She's riding the grey.

她騎著一匹灰馬。

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dressed in grey

身著灰色衣服

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the dull grey of the sky

暗灰色的天空

牛津詞典

grey power

長者對社會的影響力

牛津詞典

the grey vote

老年人的投票總數(shù)

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The company was full of faceless grey men who all looked the same.

公司里全是些缺乏個性、毫無吸引力的男人。

牛津詞典

Life seems grey and pointless without him.

沒有他生活就顯得沉悶而無意義。

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I hate these grey days.

我討厭這陰沉沉的天氣。

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grey skies

昏暗的天空

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He's gone very grey.

他已滿頭銀絲。

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a grey suit

一套灰色西裝

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wisps of grey smoke

一縷縷灰色的煙霧

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grey eyes/hair

灰色的眼睛;灰白的頭發(fā)

牛津詞典

There was further evidence of grey consumer power last week, when Ford revealed a car designed with elderly people in mind.

福特汽車公司為老年人設計的一款汽車于上周亮相,這進一步體現(xiàn)了老年消費者的購買力。

...little grey men in suits.

身著西服、缺乏個性的小個子男人們

Brazilians look gloomily forward to a New Year that even the president admits will be grey and cheerless.

展望新年,巴西人心情沮喪,甚至連總統(tǒng)都承認明年困難重重,不容樂觀。

It was a grey, wet April Sunday.

這是4月一個陰雨綿綿的星期天。

Eddie was going grey.

埃迪的頭發(fā)開始變白了。

...my grey hair...

我灰白的頭發(fā)

...a grey suit.

灰色套裝

真題例句

Oh, actually grey is my favorite color, but I prefer something made from cotton, 100% cotton I mean.

出自-2012年6月聽力原文

Grey pants made from pure cotton

出自-2012年6月聽力原文

But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

2018年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文

Inside was a beautiful gold necklace with a large grey pearl.

2015年高考英語上海卷 語法填空 A 原文

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

2016年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray;

    "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

  • 2. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

  • 3. gray clothing;

    "he was dressed in gray"

Verb
  • 1. make gray;

    "The painter decided to grey the sky"

  • 2. turn gray;

    "Her hair began to gray"

Adjective
  • 1. an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white;

    "gray flannel suit"

    "hair just turning gray"

  • 2. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair;

    "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge

    "nodded his hoary head"

  • 3. used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms);

    "a stalwart gray figure"

  • 4. intermediate in character or position;

    "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

  • 5. darkened with overcast;

    "a dark day"

    "a dull sky"

    "a gray rainy afternoon"

    "gray clouds"

    "the sky was leaden and thick"

同義詞辨析

dark, dim, black, gloomy, obscure, vague, grey

這些形容詞都含有"完全地或不完全地缺少光亮"之意。

  • dark: 最普通用詞,指缺乏自然光線或人工照明,使某物漆黑無光或光線十分微弱。
  • dim: 指光線不足或視力較差,不能清晰地看見物體。
  • black: 側重顏色是黑色的,有時也指無光的黑暗。
  • gloomy: 指光線不足或部分光線受阻而出現(xiàn)的陰暗。
  • obscure: 指因光線不充足而使物體灰暗不清,失去光澤或若隱若現(xiàn)。作借喻時指因復雜、深奧或含糊而難于理解。
  • vague: 通常作借喻用,形容抽象事物。
  • grey與dark意思相近,但側重陰暗單調的意味。

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