grey

• adj. 灰色的；灰白的
• vt. 使变成灰色；使变老
• vi. 变成灰色；老化
• n. 灰色
• n. (Grey)人名；(英、法)格雷

来自gray的拼写变体。

greyhound 灵，猎犬

来自古英语grighund. grig, 母狗，拼写受grey影响。hund, 狗，同hound. 大多数这种狗并非灰白色。

1. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray;

"the Confederate army was a vast gray"

2. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

3. gray clothing;

"he was dressed in gray"

grey

grey: [OE] Grey is an ancient colour term, traceable back all the way to a prehistoric Indo- European *ghrēghwos. From this was descended West and North Germanic *grǣwaz, which produced German grau, Dutch grauw, Swedish grå, and Danish graa as well as English grey. The distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is a comparatively recent one. Dr Johnson in his Dictionary 1755 gave gray as the main form, and even into the early 20th century it was still quite common in Britain (The Times used it, for instance). Nor is grey by any means unknown in America.

grey

see gray.

dark, dim, black, gloomy, obscure, vague, grey

这些形容词都含有"完全地或不完全地缺少光亮"之意。

dark： 最普通用词，指缺乏自然光线或人工照明，使某物漆黑无光或光线十分微弱。

dim： 指光线不足或视力较差，不能清晰地看见物体。

black： 侧重颜色是黑色的，有时也指无光的黑暗。

gloomy： 指光线不足或部分光线受阻而出现的阴暗。

obscure： 指因光线不充足而使物体灰暗不清，失去光泽或若隐若现。作借喻时指因复杂、深奥或含糊而难于理解。

vague： 通常作借喻用，形容抽象事物。

grey与dark意思相近，但侧重阴暗单调的意味。

Oh, actually grey is my favorite color, but I prefer something made from cotton, 100% cotton I mean.

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Grey pants made from pure cotton

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But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey.

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But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

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Inside was a beautiful gold necklace with a large grey pearl.

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The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

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Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

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a tall woman with greying hair

头发渐白的高个子女人

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His hair was greying at the sides.

他的两鬓已渐渐斑白。

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She's riding the grey.

她骑着一匹灰马。

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dressed in grey

身着灰色衣服

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the dull grey of the sky

暗灰色的天空

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grey power

长者对社会的影响力

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the grey vote

老年人的投票总数

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The company was full of faceless grey men who all looked the same.

公司里全是些缺乏个性、毫无吸引力的男人。

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Life seems grey and pointless without him.

没有他生活就显得沉闷而无意义。

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I hate these grey days.

我讨厌这阴沉沉的天气。

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grey skies

昏暗的天空

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He's gone very grey.

他已满头银丝。

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a grey suit

一套灰色西装

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wisps of grey smoke

一缕缕灰色的烟雾

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grey eyes/hair

灰色的眼睛；灰白的头发

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There was further evidence of grey consumer power last week, when Ford revealed a car designed with elderly people in mind.

福特汽车公司为老年人设计的一款汽车于上周亮相，这进一步体现了老年消费者的购买力。

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...little grey men in suits.

身着西服、缺乏个性的小个子男人们

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Brazilians look gloomily forward to a New Year that even the president admits will be grey and cheerless.

展望新年，巴西人心情沮丧，甚至连总统都承认明年困难重重，不容乐观。

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It was a grey, wet April Sunday.

这是4月一个阴雨绵绵的星期天。

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Eddie was going grey.

埃迪的头发开始变白了。

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...my grey hair...

我灰白的头发

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...a grey suit.

灰色套装

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