| 词汇 | red-ink |
| 释义 | red ink noun[ U ] informalukus a situation in which a company is losing a lot of money: The line between profitability and red ink in a bookstore is so thin that even the little decisions are important. bleed/leak/spill red inkThe parent company has been falling apart for several months, bleeding red ink, and losing clients. the flow/tide/sea of red inkThe boom a decade ago has now given way to a sea of red ink. Examples of red inkred ink The redink ran up into the sugar until it was red all over. From Project Gutenberg The next step is to form the characters, commencing by tracing, or going over, a certain number that are faintly drawn in redink. From Project Gutenberg He turned the leaves, looking with pleasure at the fine initial letters in redink. From Project Gutenberg Everybody wanted to mark his possession upon it with redink, and these redink lines invariably interfered with one another. From Project Gutenberg A double redink line ruled at the top and bottom will add a finished appearance to it. From Project Gutenberg I maintain the redink to which you object, exactly as it stands. From Project Gutenberg He handed me a book of pasted newspaper paragraphs, interspersed here and there in redink with little manuscript notes and comments. From Project Gutenberg These should be entered briefly in redink from the bottom towards the top of the page. From Project Gutenberg It is noticeable that in every known copy the bad grammar of the printed colophon was corrected in redink before it left the office. From Project Gutenberg She dipped her pen in redink and initialled the foot of the essay. From Project Gutenberg It saves confusion if the vertical rulings are done in redink. From Project Gutenberg She cannot, in any case, be identified with the mathematician who uses redink. From Project Gutenberg There was no redink on her report. From Project Gutenberg Each letter bears on its front, written prominently in redink, the reason of its non-delivery. From Project Gutenberg The lawyer gave a little start in his armchair, and upset a bottle of redink. From Project Gutenberg 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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