gray
gray 英 [greɪ] 美 [ɡre]
adj. 灰色的；苍白的；灰白头发的；阴郁的 n. 灰色；暗淡的光线 vi. 成为灰色或灰白
进行时:graying 过去式:grayed 过去分词:grayed 第三人称单数:grays 名词复数:grays
- Because the color gray is between black and white — actually a mix of the two — it is often used to denote something dull or monotonous. When the sun comes out after a long stretch of gray days, you suddenly feel alive again. Everybody to the beach!
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- adj. 灰色的；苍白的；灰白头发的；阴郁的
- n. 灰色；暗淡的光线
- vi. 成为灰色或灰白
- vt. 使成灰色或灰白
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1. If I live in the Pacific Ocean, I can be gray with black spots.
如果我生活在太平洋，我的颜色很可能是带有黑点的灰色。
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2. Once again he found himself inside the apartment in the enormous gray house.
他又一次发现自己在那所庞大的灰色的房子的房间里了。
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3. In the gray shadows of dawn he watched as she ribboned her way up the path that crested the hillock.
在黎明的灰色影子中，他看见它朝着那条直到山丘顶部的小径一拐一拐地走着。
- gray (adj.) "of a color between white and black; having little or no color or luminosity," Old English græg "gray" (Mercian grei), from Proto-Germanic *grewa- "gray" (source also of Old Norse grar, Old Frisian gre, Middle Dutch gra, Dutch graw, Old High German grao, German grau), with no certain connections outside Germanic. French gris, Spanish gris, Italian grigio, Medieval Latin griseus are Germanic loan-words. The spelling distinction between British grey and U.S. gray developed 20c. Expression the gray mare is the better horse in reference to households ruled by wives is recorded from 1540s.
- gray (n.) c. 1200, from gray (adj.). Gray as figurative for "Southern troops in the U.S. Civil War" is first recorded 1863, in reference to their uniform color.
- gray (v.) "become gray, wither," 1610s (with an isolated instance from late 14c.), from gray (adj.). Related: Grayed; graying.
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