1. 1天青藍、蔚藍(晴空那種藍)

    Cerulean is a deep, clear blue — the blue of a bright sky with little cloud. Painters, fashion people, and careful writers use it when they want a colour name, not just “blue.” It can be a noun (a cerulean) or an adjective (a cerulean dress). It is not a lab word you need every day; it sits in art, design, and pretty description. Though actually, like many colour names, it is a band of blues rather than one exact paint-chip, so two people may not point to quite the same shade.

組成From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + English -an. Caeruleus is from caelum (“sky, heaven”) plus a small-making suffix -uleus — the old picture is “a little bit of sky colour.”

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  • celestialboth come from Latin caelum, sky or heaven

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

ceruleannoun/səˈɹuːli.ən/

  • 1

    A greenish-blue color.

    • For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
  • 2

    Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.

ceruleanadj/səˈɹuːli.ən/

  • 1

    Sky-blue.

    • As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
    • Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies

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