purple
adjective /ˈpɜːpl/
/ˈpɜːrpl/
紫色的 - a purple flower/dress
紫色的花/连衣裙 - His face was purple with rage.
他气得脸色发紫。 - The effort was making her face turn purple.
努力让她的脸变紫。 - It produces lovely dark purple berries around this time of year.
每年的这个时候,它会结出可爱的深紫色浆果。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- slightly
- bright
- vivid
- dark
- …
- purple in the face
- purple with rage
- a purple flower/dress
- purple prose/passage writing or a piece of writing that is too grand in style
华丽的文辞;雕琢的章句
词源Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this.