violet

英 [ˈvaɪələt]

美 [ˈvaɪələt]

n.  紫罗兰; 蓝紫色; 紫罗兰色
adj.  紫罗兰色的; 蓝紫色的

复数：violets　

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Collins.1 / BNC.13023 / COCA.14924

习惯用语

n.

a shrinking violet
• （指羞怯的人）
  a way of describing a very shy person

牛津词典

noun

• 紫罗兰
  a small wild or garden plant with purple or white flowers with a sweet smell that appear in spring
• 蓝紫色；紫罗兰色
  a bluish-purple colour
  1. dressed in violet
     身着蓝紫色衣服的

柯林斯词典

• 紫罗兰
  Avioletis a small plant that has purple or white flowers in the spring.
• COLOUR 紫罗兰色;紫色
  Something that isvioletis a bluish-purple colour.
  1. The light was beginning to drain from a violet sky.
     光线开始从紫罗兰色的天空渐渐消退。
• PHRASE 羞怯的人;腼腆的人
  If you say that someone is noshrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
  1. When it comes to expressing himself he is no shrinking violet...
     他在表达自己的想法时毫不羞怯。
  2. None of the women he paints, however, could be described as shrinking violets.
     然而，他画过的所有女人中没有一个是羞涩腼腆的。

英英释义

noun

• a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
  Synonym:reddish blue
• any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

adj

• of a color intermediate between red and blue
  Synonym:purplepurplish

双语例句

• Salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy gray-green foliage.
  具有抗盐性的一年生海边植物，具有芳香的玫瑰红的或紫罗兰色的花朵，和灰绿色的肉质叶。
• None of the women he paints, however, could be described as shrinking violets.
  然而，他画过的所有女人中没有一个是羞涩腼腆的。
• Red and violet are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
  红色和紫色位于光谱相对的两端。
• A photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light.
  对绿色、蓝色和紫色光线敏感的照相软片。
• A treatment method for carbazole violet commercialization is presented.
  介绍了咔唑紫商品化处理的一种方法。
• After 10 minutes the surplus material is washed away and any remaining deposit examined with ultra violet light.
  10分钟后剩余的物质被冲洗掉，任何残留的沉淀物则会用紫外线进行检测。
• One is pure purple, just like violet;
  一个是纯粹的紫色，就好像优雅的紫罗兰；
• You want to see it spinning nice and opening clockwise in its primary color of indigo and violet.
  你感觉它以靛青色和紫罗兰色两个主色调顺时针均匀地旋转打开。
• The twelve numbers are coloured. They're yellow, green, pink, violet, brown and orange.
  十二个数字是彩色的，有黄、绿、粉红、紫、褐和橘黄。
• European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers.
  因其蓝色紫色或白色的花而被广泛种植的欧洲两年生草本植物。