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    nA2

    /ɡreɪ/

    The color of dark clouds, between black and white; the usual American spelling of 'grey'.

    灰色

    複數 grays

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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Picture the colour of a rain-cloud sky: not black, not white, the whole flat middle between them. The only thing worth watching here is the spelling — this is the American form of the same colour the British write grey.

可以想成:下雨前那片雲的顏色——不是黑也不是白,是兩者之間那一整片。這個字唯一要留意的是拼法:gray 是美式寫法,更多收起可以想成:下雨前那片雲的顏色——不是黑也不是白,是兩者之間那一整片。這個字唯一要留意的是拼法:gray 是美式寫法,英式寫 grey,指的是同一個顏色。台灣的教材兩種都會遇到,寫作時挑一種、整篇統一就好。

原始詞典資料25 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。

Grayname/ɡɹeɪ/

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.

    • In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.
  • 2

    A male given name.

  • 3

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 4

    A number of places in the United States:

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    A number of places in the United States:

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    A number of places in the United States:

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    A number of places in the United States:

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    A number of places in the United States:

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A rural locality in north-east Tasmania, Australia.

grayadj詞源 1/ɡɹeɪ/

  • 1

    Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

  • 2

    Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

    • the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation
    • It's a pretty grey outlook for England if these are a sample of the mothers of the coming generation.
  • 3

    Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

  • 4

    Gray-haired.

    • I have already gone gray and lost my looks.
  • 5

    Old.

    • Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]
    • In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.
  • 6

    Relating to older people.

    • the gray dollar
    • February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

grayverb詞源 1/ɡɹeɪ/

  • 1

    To turn gray.

    • My hair is beginning to gray.
  • 2

    slangdemographicsdemographyTo turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

    • the graying of America
    • It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.
  • 3

    artshobbieslifestyleTo give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

graynoun詞源 1/ɡɹeɪ/

  • 1

    An achromatic colour between black and white.

  • 2

    An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

  • 3

    A gray wolf

    • Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.
  • 4

    A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

    • Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.
  • 5

    human-sciencesmysticismmythologySynonym of grey alien.

  • 6

    A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

graynoun詞源 2

  • 1

    In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass.

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