(noun.) of imperial status; 'he was born to the purple'.
(verb.) color purple.
(verb.) become purple.
(adj.) of a color intermediate between red and blue .
汉克整理
双语例句
Well, Mr. Sawyer,' said Mrs. Raddle, planting herself firmly on a purple cauliflower in the Kidderminster carpet, 'and what's that to me, Sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
Look at him, the old man would say, nudging his neighbour with a delighted purple face, did you ever see such a chap? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Janey fell upon his neck and pressed him to her purple flannel breast. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Mrs. Manson laid a purple finger on her lips. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Now compress the artery leading from the organ, and the part between the heart and the point of pressur e, and the heart itself, become distended and take on a deep purple color. 李贝.西洋科学史.
There were black, deep blue, lighter blue, green, purple, red, yellow, white, and other colours or shades of colours. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Mrs. Fairfax was dusting some vases of fine purple spar, which stood on a sideboard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
You know the way in which dyers first prepare the white ground and then lay on the dye of purple or of any other colour. 柏拉图.理想国.
His face was purple and his eyes dim, as he put her down and left her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
But, when the ground has not been duly prepared, you will have noticed how poor is the look either of purple or of any other colour. 柏拉图.理想国.
After giving a great heave, and with a purple choking face, he then began. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
It must have had a flora green in the wet season and brown and purple in the dry. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Rawdon himself trembled, and his face grew purple behind his dyed mustachios. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
When I think of this _deggerredation_, I feel that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown with yellow sky-rockets on it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.