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词汇 purple
释义 purple
adjective
uk /ˈpɜː.pəl/ us /ˈpɝː.pəl/

purpleadjective (COLOUR)


A2
of a dark reddish-blue colour: 紫色的,紫红色的
purple plums紫色的李子
a dark purple bruise一块青肿
 purple with rage(mainly UKpurple in the face)
dark red in the face because of anger: 气得脸发青
By this point, and purple with rage, all I could think of saying was, "I think we'll have to agree to disagree."
 purple patch
UK
a period of success:
Often a company will go through a purple patch of achievement because of a talented director at the helm.
United could have extended their lead during a purple patch following the goal.
Her face was covered in purple blotches.她的脸上满是紫色的斑点。
He admired the queen's resplendent purple robes.
Her face was covered in purple blotches.她的脸上满是紫色的斑点。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Common colours
blue
bluely
blueness
bluey
bluish
brown
brownish
green
greenish
greenly
orange
orangeness
pink
pinkish
pinkness
purpleness
purplish
reddish
yellowish
yellowness

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Success and achievements

purpleadjective (STYLE)


UK
used to describe a piece of writing that is complicated or sounds false because the writer has tried too hard to make the style interesting: (作品)词藻华丽的,华而不实的
Despite occasional patches of purple prose, the book is mostly clear and incisive.这本书尽管偶尔有几段词藻华丽的文句,但总体来讲文风简洁明了。
The prose is quite purple, filled with ridiculous adjectives and unnecessary descriptions.
She shuns the purple passage in favour of concise, striking images.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complexity
advanced
all-singing
baroque
baroquely
be more to something than meets the eyeidiom
fancily
finicky
fractally
high-tech
indirectly
non-basic
onerousness
ornate
ornately
over-elaborate
tortuous
tortuously
tortuousness
twisty
ultra-sophisticated

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Difficult to understand

purpleadjective (POLITICS)


US
used to describe an area where a similar number of people usually vote Republican and Democrat, so that a small number of votes can change the result in elections:
This group of voters has potential to tip the balance in two or more purple states.
She has to run against a Democrat in a district that’s mighty purple.
Compare
blue state
red state
He's pretty moderate. He's able to win in a purple state.
Democrats fear they are about to get punished by their constituents in the "purple" districts.
Some people think this is a good opportunity for Dems, even though the district isn't quite as purple as some other targets.
The party also pulled out big victories across state legislatures, flipping six chambers, turning others purple, and shoring up its supermajorities.
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International relations: United States politics & government
anti-Republican
battleground state
bicameral
blue state
caucus
confederacy
gubernatorial
homeland security
House Committee
impeach
Independence Day
joint resolution
override
republican
secret service
secretary
Secretary of State
the Articles of Confederation
the GOP
the Republican Party

Related word


purpleness
purple
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈpɜː.pəl/ us /ˈpɝː.pəl/
A2
a dark reddish-blue colour: 紫色,紫红色
Purple is my favourite colour.我最喜欢的颜色是紫色。
The evening sky was full of purples and reds.傍晚的天空布满紫色和红色的云彩。
 
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I like rich jewel colours, such as purple, blue and green.我喜欢浓重的宝石色,如紫色、蓝色和绿色。
Arrayed before him were 40 schoolchildren in purple and green.
The evening sky was deep pink, with tints of purple and red in it.傍晚的天空呈深粉红色,夹杂着淡淡的紫色和红色。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Less common colours
apple green
argent
ashy
avocado
baby blue
carmine
cerise
dun
emerald
indigo
peacock blue
puce
racing green
ruddily
rust
salmon pink
sanguine
shocking pink
sky blue
verdure

purple | American Dictionary


purple
adjective, noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈpɜr·pəl/
(of) the color that is a mixture of red and blue:
a purple dress
[ C ]The walls are a pale purple.

Examples of purple


purple
Measurements with a uniform purple or lime background are shown by solid purple or lime triangles, respectively.
Both purple-lime and lime-purple patterns were used in the experiments.
All the other counter-stains employed gave variable and inconsistent results, often with a preponderance of purple.
Either the purple bacteria have acquired the photosynthesis genes recently by lateral gene transfer or selective pressure forced various species to retain these organizational patterns.
In this review we use the names of many different purple bacteria.
The purple bacteria, therefore, must ' make their living ' by utilizing green light and far-red light of wavelengths above 750 nm.
Directed picosecond excitation transport in purple photosynthetic bacteria.
When he gets older, the color scheme subtlety changes from reds to purples to blues, depicting maturity and loss of vitality.
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Wikipedia

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Dehydration of biological membranes by cooling : an investigation on the purple membrane.
Figure 4 shows a cartoon of the photosynthetic membrane of a typical purple bacterium.
Further characterization of the protein secondary structure in purple membrane by circular dichroism and polarized infrared spectroscopies.
A sodium reagent is used and the chloride ions are reacted with mercury and diphenylcarbazone to form a purple colour.
Would the organism generalize the pecking behavior in response to a purple key?
Fuchsia flowers themselves contain a wide variety of purples.
From
Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
In this passage, weolocread has been deemed appropriate for both scarlet and purple or, possibly, crimson.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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