时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英美文化


英语课

   蓝色调来自天空、大海,所以能给人静止、平缓、安定、忧郁等感觉,还给人一种心胸开阔,文静大方的情操,它又能使人受到诚实,信任与崇高的心理熏陶。 其实蓝色意味着平静、严肃、科学、喜悦、美丽、和谐与满足,在医学上它经常被用来放松肌肉紧张、松弛神经及改善血液循环。


  在中文中,“蓝色”经常是以褒义的形式出现,“蓝天白云”、“蓝色的大海”饱含着对大自然美丽风景的赞美,蓝色在汉语中的引申意义较少。而在英语中blue是一个含义十分丰富的颜色词,blue不仅表示颜色,而且常用来喻指人的“情绪低落”、“心情沮丧”、“忧愁苦闷”。
  例如:
  Mary failed to pass the examination,and she was in a blue mood.这里的“blue mood”当然不是“蓝色的情绪”,上句应译成:“玛丽考试不及格,所以很忧郁。”
  又如:It was a blue Sunday,and he had to go to work.这里的“blue Sunday”如译作“蓝色的星期天”就令人费解,上句的正确译文是:“又是一个讨厌的星期天,他不得不加班。”
  如:They felt rather blue after the failure in the football match. 球赛踢输了,他们感到有些沮丧。
  —— She looks blue today. What's the matter with her?
  她今天显得闷闷不乐,出了什么事情?
  —— She is in holiday blue.
  她得了假期忧郁症。
  holiday blue 相当于winter holiday depression,指冬季假期时,人困在家里,感到无聊寂寞时的心情或情绪。
  另一个同低落的情绪有关的词组是:a blue Monday(倒霉的星期一),指度过快乐的周末后,星期一又要上学或上班,所以情绪不好。
  blue在英语中有时用来指“黄色的”、“下流的”意思,如:blue talk 下流的言论 blue video 黄色录象
  有时blue又有社会地位高、出身名门的意义,如blue blood(贵族血统)。
  此外,blue在英语中与其它词汇搭配,还有另外的含义,如:
  out of blue 意想不到
  once in a blue 千载难逢
  drink till all's blue 一醉方休

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学英语单词
acess door
agis
an utter waste of time
ascochitine
assistant account executive
auto loan
azaspiracids
Barbados gooseberry
base course
belt reagent feeder
berggren
beshower
biological retrogression
braunfels
breadstuffs
C A I
cabin autogiro
class lycopsidas
cocompact
comedie francaise
cryodesiccated
cupric potassium ferrocyanide
cystine linkage
defeaticans
Department of Health and Human Services
details
diloricate
dyeing in width
educational movement
estramacons
fan-like
feathergrass
FGGE
free pole
frit files
galvanized steel self tapping screw
Glitrin
granite slab
graphics digitizer
ground-based ionosonde
halting execution
ham hock
hammer a nail into someone's coffin
heat merchant
humeroradial articulation
jeremitaylorically
Jinning Township
judah-ites
land girls
lanthanum selenate
launch vehicle rail transporter
laurostearin
lead mordant
leiphemia
liver-seeking radioactive substance
lophotrichus
mantissa attribute
mastery of the air
melanagromyza declinata
mioner
mmoos
number of degrees of freedom
on-stream analysis
Oneida Indian Reservation
other director cost
overload nozzle
panlogistically
pari-mutuel machine
periodontal therapeutic
permanent adjustment
pocket secretary
porcelainlike
porcelian
Port Loko
posthypnosis
precongruences
profit and loss control
quodlibet
re-impose
Res ipsa loquitur.
rotts
Sebbersund
seckinger
senior architect
session module
snikey
solid spar
sponge zirconium
square-die
standard noise source
tappet roller
tar still
the green mile
thoen
to can
tunafish
twangler
un-angel
Ust'-Labinsk
ventrata
villus folds
whinil