grey

高中CET4CET6

英[ɡreɪ]
美[ɡreɪ]

基本释义

n.
灰色
adj.
灰色的; 头发灰白的; 苍白的; 昏暗的; 沉闷的; 单调乏味的; 老年人的
v.
变灰白

词性变化

实用例句

a tall woman with greying hair

头发渐白的高个子女人

牛津词典

His hair was greying at the sides.

他的两鬓已渐渐斑白。

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She's riding the grey.

她骑着一匹灰马。

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dressed in grey

身着灰色衣服

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the dull grey of the sky

暗灰色的天空

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grey power

长者对社会的影响力

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the grey vote

老年人的投票总数

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The company was full of faceless grey men who all looked the same.

公司里全是些缺乏个性、毫无吸引力的男人。

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Life seems grey and pointless without him.

没有他生活就显得沉闷而无意义。

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I hate these grey days.

我讨厌这阴沉沉的天气。

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grey skies

昏暗的天空

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He's gone very grey.

他已满头银丝。

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a grey suit

一套灰色西装

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wisps of grey smoke

一缕缕灰色的烟雾

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grey eyes/hair

灰色的眼睛;灰白的头发

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There was further evidence of grey consumer power last week, when Ford revealed a car designed with elderly people in mind.

福特汽车公司为老年人设计的一款汽车于上周亮相,这进一步体现了老年消费者的购买力。

...little grey men in suits.

身着西服、缺乏个性的小个子男人们

Brazilians look gloomily forward to a New Year that even the president admits will be grey and cheerless.

展望新年,巴西人心情沮丧,甚至连总统都承认明年困难重重,不容乐观。

It was a grey, wet April Sunday.

这是4月一个阴雨绵绵的星期天。

Eddie was going grey.

埃迪的头发开始变白了。

...my grey hair...

我灰白的头发

...a grey suit.

灰色套装

真题例句

Oh, actually grey is my favorite color, but I prefer something made from cotton, 100% cotton I mean.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Grey pants made from pure cotton

出自-2012年6月听力原文

But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Inside was a beautiful gold necklace with a large grey pearl.

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray;

    "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

  • 2. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

  • 3. gray clothing;

    "he was dressed in gray"

Verb
  • 1. make gray;

    "The painter decided to grey the sky"

  • 2. turn gray;

    "Her hair began to gray"

Adjective
  • 1. an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white;

    "gray flannel suit"

    "hair just turning gray"

  • 2. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair;

    "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge

    "nodded his hoary head"

  • 3. used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms);

    "a stalwart gray figure"

  • 4. intermediate in character or position;

    "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

  • 5. darkened with overcast;

    "a dark day"

    "a dull sky"

    "a gray rainy afternoon"

    "gray clouds"

    "the sky was leaden and thick"

同义词辨析

dark, dim, black, gloomy, obscure, vague, grey

这些形容词都含有"完全地或不完全地缺少光亮"之意。

  • dark: 最普通用词,指缺乏自然光线或人工照明,使某物漆黑无光或光线十分微弱。
  • dim: 指光线不足或视力较差,不能清晰地看见物体。
  • black: 侧重颜色是黑色的,有时也指无光的黑暗。
  • gloomy: 指光线不足或部分光线受阻而出现的阴暗。
  • obscure: 指因光线不充足而使物体灰暗不清,失去光泽或若隐若现。作借喻时指因复杂、深奥或含糊而难于理解。
  • vague: 通常作借喻用,形容抽象事物。
  • grey与dark意思相近,但侧重阴暗单调的意味。

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