喜樂美語

核心畫面

Start from the colour itself — the shade of dark clouds or smoke, sitting halfway between black and white, with no brightness of its own. Almost every other use is that same dull, in-between, colourless feeling carried onto something else: hair losing its colour with age, a tired face, a boring life, a cloudy sky, or a situation that is neither clearly one thing nor the other.

可以從顏色本身開始想：烏雲或煙的那種色，介於黑與白中間，自己沒有什麼亮度。其他幾乎所有用法，都是把這種「黯淡、不黑不…更多收起可以從顏色本身開始想：烏雲或煙的那種色，介於黑與白中間，自己沒有什麼亮度。其他幾乎所有用法，都是把這種「黯淡、不黑不白、沒有色彩」的感覺搬到別的東西上——頭髮隨年紀褪了色、臉色發灰、生活乏味、天空陰沉，或一件事既不算這樣也不算那樣的模糊狀態。

原始詞典資料12 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。

Greyname

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname, alternative spelling of Gray.

  • 2

    A placename:

  • 3

    A placename:

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    A placename:

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    An English earldom.

Greynoun

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    historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.

greyadj/ɡɹeɪ/

  • 1

    Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

    • These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.
    • This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
  • 2

    slangSynonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

greyverb/ɡɹeɪ/

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    Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

    • Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.

greynoun/ɡɹeɪ/

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    Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

    • Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey.
    • Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。