Violet
['vaɪələt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum.
(noun.) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers.
丹尼尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
(n.) The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
(n.) In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
(n.) Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
校對:谢尔比
解釋/意思:
n. any plant of genus Viola of many species with a flower generally of some shade of blue but also white and yellow and most often fragrant: the colour of the violet a bluish or light purple.—adj. of the colour of the violet bluish or light purple.—adjs. Violā′ceous of a violet colour purple; Violes′cent tending to a violet colour.
編輯:韦德
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see violets in your dreams, or gather them, brings joyous occasions in which you will find favor with some superior person. For a young woman to gather them, denotes that she will soon meet her future husband. To see them dry, or withered, denotes that her love will be scorned and thrown aside.
手打:凯勒
例句/造句/用法:
- He had a broad straw hat on, with a violet-coloured ribbon round it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The violet silk would be so nice. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The sun is a dizzying scarlet blaze, the sky a violet vortex whirling over me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You observed that her right glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Miss Sedley was not of the sunflower sort; and I say it is out of the rules of all proportion to draw a violet of the size of a double dahlia. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A child wearing a green frock on Independence Day seems at night to be wearing a black frock, if standing near powders burning with red, blue, or violet light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- That was only a month to wait, and here was a lovely violet silk going at a bargain, and she had the money, if she only dared to take it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A loud-speaking telephone with quartz cylinder and beam of ultra-violet light. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yellow or green are more efficacious; but blue and violet light produce the most decided and powerful effects. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Three devices for utilizing vibrations beyond the ultra violet. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Dissolve the methyl-violet in the water and add the glycerine. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- When black hektograph ink is desired, instead of the methyl-violet use double the amount of negrosine. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Miss Violet's tastes were, on the contrary, more rude and boisterous than those of her sister. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She looked at the sky overhead, and saw that the sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring and early summer had been replaced by a metallic violet. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The white light of the sun is composed of the seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Allow me to offer you these violets, presenting a small bouquet between his delicate finger and thumb. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I was resting at my favourite point after a long ramble, and Charley was gathering violets at a little distance from me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Behind the musicians came lads garlanded with wreaths of intermingled violets and ivy, bearing thyrsi. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The lattice of this room was open; the outer air breathing through, gave freshnessthe sweet violets lent fragrance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- These colors were bright, and were generally yellows, blues, and grays, although sometimes he used greens, violets, and browns. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Roses for love, myrtle for joy, violets for modesty. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I dried the violets, kept them, and have them still. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The little children of the third division gave each her knot of violets, lisped each her congratulation:--you--nothing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Miss Keeldar resumed her square of silk canvas, and continued the creation of a wreath of Parmese violets. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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