grey

[英] [ɡrei] [美] [ɡre] 生词本

adj.

vt.

vi.

n.

  • 易混淆的单词:Grey  
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1. COLOUR 灰色 Grey is the colour of ashes or of clouds on a rainy day. 
  • ...a grey suit.

    灰色套装

2. ADJ-GRADED (头发)灰白的 You use grey to describe the colour of people's hair when it changes from its original colour, usually as they get old. 
  • ...my grey hair...

    我灰白的头发

  • Eddie was going grey.

    埃迪的头发开始变白了。

3. ADJ-GRADED (天气)昏暗的,阴沉的 If the weather is grey, there are many clouds in the sky and the light is dull. 
  • It was a grey, wet April Sunday.

    这是4月一个阴雨绵绵的星期天。

greyness
  • ...winter's greyness.

    冬日的阴沉

4. ADJ-GRADED 沉闷的;阴郁的;暗淡的 If you describe a situation as grey, you mean that it is dull, unpleasant, or difficult. 
  • Brazilians look gloomily forward to a New Year that even the president admits will be grey and cheerless.

    展望新年,巴西人心情沮丧,甚至连总统都承认明年困难重重,不容乐观。

greyness
  • In this new world of greyness there is an attempt to remove all risks.

    身处这个前景暗淡的新世界,人们力图排除所有的风险。

5. ADJ-GRADED 单调乏味的;无特色的;不吸引人的 If you describe someone or something as grey, you think that they are boring and unattractive, and very similar to other things or other people. 
  • ...little grey men in suits.

    身着西服、缺乏个性的小个子男人们

greyness
  • Journalists are frustrated by his apparent greyness.

    他毫无个人魅力可言,这让记者们很失望。

6. ADJ 老年人的(新闻用语) Journalists sometimes use grey to describe things concerning old people. 
  • There was further evidence of grey consumer power last week, when Ford revealed a car designed with elderly people in mind.

    福特汽车公司为老年人设计的一款汽车于上周亮相,这进一步体现了老年消费者的购买力。

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"
1. A band of grey hair encircled his bald dome.
他的秃头四周长着一圈灰白的头发。

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2. A grey day dawned upon the sleeping city.
一个灰蒙蒙的白昼降临于这座沉睡的城市。

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3. A wisp of grey hair stuck out from under her hat.
从她的帽子下边露出一绺灰白的头发。

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4. He is growing grey.
他头发白起来了。

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5. He threw out his old suits, all in shades of grey and reddish-brown.
他把那些灰色和红褐色的旧西服都扔掉了。

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6. He wore a grey suit.
他穿一套灰衣服。

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7. His face turned grey as he heard the bad news.
当听到这个坏消息时,他的脸色变得灰白。

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8. His face was ashy grey.
他面如土色。

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9. His hair has turned grey.
他的头发已灰白了。

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10. His hair was touched with grey.
他的头发有点斑白。

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11. His shaggy grey hair fell loosely across his brow.
他凌乱的白发蓬松地搭在额头。

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12. Life seems grey and joyless to them.
对他们来说生活是没有乐趣和希望的。

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13. May you two live together till old and grey.
愿你们两口儿白头偕老。

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14. My hair is going grey.
我的头发渐变花白了。

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15. She always wears a grey flannel trousers.
她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。

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16. She was dressed in grey and looked suitably subdued.
她身穿灰色衣服,看上去颜色柔和,很得体。

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17. She was dressed in grey.
她穿着灰色服装。

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18. She's gone grey within a few weeks.
在几星期内她的头发就变灰白了。

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19. She's renting in some grey suburb of Birmingham.
她租住在伯明翰某处阴沉沉的郊区。

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20. The blue shaded into grey.
这种蓝色逐渐变成灰色了。

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