livid
livid 英 [ˈlɪvɪd] 美 [ˈlɪvɪd]
adj. 铅色的;青灰色的;非常生气的
She stared back at him with livid disbelief. 她铁青着脸,用难以置信的神情看着他。
- If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish-gray" or "slate-colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea.
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- adj. 铅色的;青灰色的;非常生气的
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1. She stared back at him with livid disbelief.
她铁青着脸,用难以置信的神情看着他。
- livid (adj.) early 15c., "of a bluish-leaden color," from Old French livide (13c.) and directly from Latin lividus "of a bluish color, black-and-blue," figuratively "envious, spiteful, malicious," from livere "be bluish," earlier *slivere, from PIE *sliwo-, suffixed form of root *sleiə- "bluish" (source also of Old Church Slavonic and Russian sliva "plum;" Lithuanian slyvas "plum;" Old Irish li, Welsh lliw "color, splendor," Old English sla "sloe").
livid / ˈlɪvɪd ; NAmE ˈlɪvɪd / adjective 1 extremely angry 暴怒的;狂怒的 SYN furious 2 dark bluish-grey in colour 乌青色的;青灰色的 ◆ a livid bruise 青瘀 livid / ˈlɪvɪd ; NAmE ˈlɪvɪd /
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