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核心畫面

One way to picture this word: the colour of a clear sky or a sunny sea — that single, calm, cool colour is the root, whether you use it as an adjective ('a blue door') or name the colour itself ('a deep blue'). Two threads run off it. One is feeling: blue is the colour English ties to low, quiet sadness, so 'feeling blue' and 'the blues' are sadness wearing this colour. The other is the body and a few cultural quirks: skin going blue with cold, and odd fixed phrases that borrowed the colour along the way.

可以想成：晴朗天空或陽光下海水的那個顏色——那一個沉靜、清涼的顏色就是根，不管你拿它當形容詞（a blue door…更多收起可以想成：晴朗天空或陽光下海水的那個顏色——那一個沉靜、清涼的顏色就是根，不管你拿它當形容詞（a blue door）還是直接指這個顏色本身（a deep blue）。從這個根岔出兩條線。一條是情緒：英文把低落、安靜的憂傷繫在藍色上，所以 feeling blue、the blues 就是披著藍色的悲傷。另一條是身體和一些文化上的怪用法：人凍到皮膚發青，還有幾個一路把藍色借去用的固定片語。

原始詞典資料52 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Bluename

  • 1

    A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau.

  • 2

    rareA female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.

  • 3

    A male nickname, occasionally used as a formal given name. (Australia) Nickname for a person with ginger hair.

Bluenoun

  • 1

    A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.

  • 2

    historicalA member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)

    • Have you heard any news / Of that chap in the Blues / Was it Prosser, or Pyecroft, or Pimm?
  • 3

    Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”).

    • This Blue shows the remarkable, sleek bodyline of the breed.

blueadj詞源 1/bluː/

  • 1

    Of a blue hue.

    • the deep blue sea
    • Why is the sky blue?
  • 2

    informalDepressed, melancholic, sad.

    • “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
    • "Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."
  • 3

    Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.

    • My hands were blue with cold.
    • The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.
  • 4

    Pale, without redness or glare.

    • The candle burns blue.
  • 5

    governmentpoliticsSupportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

    • I live in a blue constituency.  Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
  • 6

    governmentpoliticsSupportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

    • Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
  • 7

    governmentpoliticsSupportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

  • 8

    astronomynatural-sciencesOf, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
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    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsHaving a colour charge of blue.

  • 10

    Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

  • 11

    Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.

  • 12

    archaicSevere or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

    • blue and sour religionists;  blue laws
  • 13

    archaicLiterary; scholarly; bluestockinged.

    • Some of the ladies were very blue and well informed, reading Mrs. Somerville and frequenting the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall.
  • 14

    informalRisqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.

    • His material is too blue for prime time.
    • The air was blue with oaths.
  • 15

    datedslangDrunk.

    • My wine I drank and oft got blue / On brandy, gin and whisky too— / Until my reputation gay, / Along with care, was cast away —

bluenoun詞源 1/bluː/

  • 1

    The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.

    • Lady Penrhyn was quite handsome enough to have spared one ingredient in her cup of fascination, but, unfortunately, having been married in her teens, she expected to live in them, and, never being reminded by the trials to which her sex is subject, of the flight of years, and the inroads of suffering, expected time to stand still, and the first bloom of existence (the blue on the plum) to remain as stationary as her own taste, for the pleasures of flirtation.
    • She watches the yachts in the creamy evening blues.
  • 2

    Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.

    • I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?
  • 3

    A blue dye or pigment.

  • 4

    Blue clothing.

    • The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
  • 5

    Blue clothing.

  • 6

    Blue clothing.

    • Come on, you blues!
  • 7

    slangball-gamesbaseballgamesBlue clothing.

    • He was safe! Terrible call, blue!
  • 8

    Blue clothing.

    • He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford.
另外 18 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Blue clothing.

    • He was a rugby blue at Cambridge.
  • 10

    slangBlue clothing.

    • He dialed Kathy to be sure she was okay and see if the blues arrived. She was crying when she picked up the phone. “Kathy, honey, I'm here. It'll be okay. Are the police there?”
  • 11

    historicalBlue clothing.

  • 12

    The sky, literally or figuratively.

    • The balloon floated up into the blue.
    • His request for leave came out of the blue.
  • 13

    The ocean; deep waters.

  • 14

    The far distance; a remote or distant place.

    • The problem with buffalo as well as most African antelopes as a steady diet is that they have very little marbling or body fat and, after six months out in the blue, one dreams at night of a T-bone steak sizzling in great globules of yellow fat.
  • 15

    A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

    • On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
  • 16

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesOne of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.

  • 17

    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.

    • The large and handsome spectre-butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce.
  • 18

    A bluefish.

    • When snow falls on the roses, when a mako is beheaded, when the weaks and blues swim south
    • Blues are about as vicious a fish as you'll find on the Atlantic seaboard — they will continue to slash through schools of bait even after they have eaten so much that they're constantly regurgitating shredded baitfish.
  • 19

    An argument or brawl.

    • "I had a blue with Dad," said Fay. "He wanted to drive us, I wanted to walk."
    • If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin′ on the streets today.
  • 20

    A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.

    • It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.
  • 21

    Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

  • 22

    A type of firecracker.

    • Lord Lyttelton's Life by Dr Johnson […] which a whole tribe of Blues, with Mrs Montagu at their Head, have Vowed to execrate and revenge […]
  • 23

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsOne of the three colour charges for quarks.

  • 24

    governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of the Conservative Party.

    • He is a true blue.
  • 25

    A blue cheese.

    • "No, just get over here. You need to try this one!" she exclaimed as she cheesed up a chunk of bread with one of our blues.
    • Blues are made via the introduction of molds from the genus Penicillum roqueforti, which are normally added to the milk toward the beginning of the cheesemaking process.
  • 26

    slangRisqué or pornographic material.

    • Improvising freely, he entered the stage with a karaoke set and introduced himself as a 'Bohemian street performer', before launching into a series of clubstyle gags and one-liners, promising 'a bit of blue for the Dads'[…]
    • Fuzz grinned and nodded at the stage. 'Bit of blue for the lads.' […] The stage was dimly lit, and populated by Nubian slaves and harem girls in artfully draped deshabille.

blueverb詞源 1/bluː/

  • 1

    To make or become blue; to turn blue.

    • It blows, it snows, And blues your nose, My toes are all frost bitten The weather would Quite starve the crows, Or freeze the part you sit on.
    • The dawn is wanly blueing.
  • 2

    engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesTo treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

  • 3

    To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).

  • 4

    slangTo fight, brawl, or argue.

    • It was years since Ken had flogged her up, but blueing with him still made her ache.

blueverb詞源 2/bluː/

  • 1

    datedslangTo spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

    • So far as I can see, there’s nothing to prevent you from drawing a cheque for fifty thousand and blueing the lot.
    • They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。