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词汇 black-eye
释义 black eye
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌblæk ˈaɪ/ us /ˌblæk ˈaɪ/

black eyenoun[C] (INJURY)


an area of skin around the eye that has gone dark because it has been hit: (被打或撞成的)青肿眼眶
He had a fight at school and came home with a black eye.他在学校里打架了,回家时眼眶青肿。
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Skin complaints & blemishes
acne rosacea
age spot
anti-crack
anti-dandruff
anti-leprosy
cyst
dermatitis
hickey
macular
nettlerash
papular
papule
pemphigus
pimply
prickle
pustule
scabby
ulcer
verruca
wart

black eyenoun[C] (DAMAGE)


mainly US
something that damages someone's or something's reputation; a bad reputation:
The problem is something of a black eye for what has been the biotechnology industry's most successful product.
He described recent incidents of sexual harassment as "a black eye for the university."
Inaccurate hurricane predictions gave forecasters a black eye.
The trial verdict was a black eye for United States diplomacy.
For her, the loss of a major sports team is just another black eye for the area.
Asked about the impact of doping cases on the sport, he replied, "It is a black eye, but I suspect there are a lot of sports out there with black eyes."
"This is a black eye on the country - a country that I thought was modern and free," he says.
"A lot of us moved here for the school system, and now look at it," she exclaims, "I think the strike gave Middletown a black eye."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Damaging reputation
anti-defamation
aspersion
besmirch
black mark
blacken
defamatory
defame
demonize
dog
drag someone's name through the mire/mudidiom
hatchet job
malign
scurrility
scurrilous
scurrilously
self-immolation
show someone in a bad lightidiom
slur
smear
tarnish

black eye | American Dictionary


black eye
noun[ C ]
us/ˈblæk ˈɑɪ/
dark colored skin around the eye from being injured or hit:
fig. The controversy gave him a political black eye.

Examples of black eye


black eye
He had a blackeye and was exhausted, but it looked like we were in the clear.
A drunken man is led in by his wife, who has a blackeye.
Those councillors got a blackeye for their efforts.
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He wants to know whether he qualifies, with a blackeye.
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He said that we were in danger as producers of giving ourselves a blackeye as consumers.
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If a boy went courting a girl in a neighbouring village he did not get the girl, but he got a blackeye.
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Avant garde theorists may think they are lunging at finance capitalists but it is the small saver who will get the blackeye.
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A policeman got a blackeye, a damaged ear and other slight injuries.
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He emerged from the meeting with a blackeye and a fractured jaw.
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It is not a happy experience, from which one is lucky to emerge with only a blackeye.
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I certainly remember hearing him saying that the real danger is that as producers we should give ourselves a blackeye as consumers.
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Not content with giving the motorist a blackeye, they want to give him a thick ear as well.
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I ought to say that now in case there is a reference to my blackeye.
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If it was not successful we probably got kicked out, and if the fellow taking the money was bigger than us we probably got a blackeye.
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He and the deputy had a row, using pit language, which is fairly clean, and the deputy struck the lad in the face, giving him a blackeye.
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