
With the release of the much-anticipated film adaptation of the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey on 13 February, we thought that it might be time to take a look in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and see how many shades of grey we could dig up. As it turns out, the OED gives EL James a run for the money, offering up more than 80 different synonyms for 'grey'. We have picked outsome of them here for you to peruse:
2月13日万众期待的由畅销小说《五十度灰》改编的电影上映,我们觉得也许是时候看看能从《牛津词典》挖掘多少度“灰”(“灰”的表达)。事实证明,《牛津词典》给予EL·詹姆斯发达的资本——提供了80多个“灰”的同义词。我们选取了其中的一些供你细细考究:
battleship grey 战舰灰色
bice n. 绿色,灰蓝色;灰蓝色颜料
blae adj. 青灰色的; n. 灰青炭质页岩
blanket adj. 灰色,浅灰,淡蓝
bone-grey 骨头灰
cinereous adj. 灰色的
ficelle-coloured 淡灰褐色
field grey 场灰色
glawke 蓝色或灰色
greige 灰褐色——介于米黄和灰之间的一种颜色
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
griseous 灰色条纹的;灰色的
grisy 灰色
grizzly adj. 灰色的 n. 灰熊
grysande (苏格兰语)灰色
hoary adj. 久远的,古老的;灰白的
leaden adj. 铅灰色的;铅制的;沉闷的;铅一般重的 vt. 使沉重;使懒散;使呆滞
London smoke 伦敦烟灰色
Payne's grey 佩恩的灰——蓝、红、黑和永久的白颜料的复合色。
pewter n. 白蜡;青灰色adj. 青灰色的;镴制的
plumby 铅灰色
subcineritious 浅灰色
walnyed 浅灰
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