n. 蓝色;[复数](美国海、陆、空三军穿的)蓝色制服;蓝颜料;[the blue(s)][用作单数或复数]布鲁斯(歌曲)(一种伤感的美国黑人民歌
adj. 蓝色的;沮丧的,忧郁的;下流的
vt. 把…染成蓝色;使成蓝色;给…用上蓝剂;用上蓝剂于
vi. 变成蓝色,呈蓝色
n. (英、西、意)布卢(人名)
blue 蓝色的
来自PIE * bhel, 燃烧,发光。词源同blank, black. 在古英语里这一PIE词表示各种颜色。
The exact color to which the Gmc. term applies varies in the older dialects; M.H.G. bla is also 'yellow,' whereas the Scandinavian words may refer esp. to a deep, swarthy black, e.g. O.N. blamaðr, N.Icel. blamaður 'Negro' [Buck]The color of constancy since Chaucer at least, but apparently for no deeper reason than the rhyme in true blue (c. 1500). From early times blue was the distinctive color of the dress of servants, which may be the reason police uniforms are blue, a tradition Farmer dates to Elizabethan times. For blue ribbon see cordon bleu under cordon. Blue whale attested from 1851, so called for its color. The flower name blue bell is recorded by 1570s. Blue streak, of something resembling a bolt of lightning (for quickness, intensity, etc.) is from 1830, U.S. Western slang.
Few words enter more largely into the composition of slang, and colloquialisms bordering on slang, than does the word BLUE. Expressive alike of the utmost contempt, as of all that men hold dearest and love best, its manifold combinations, in ever varying shades of meaning, greet the philologist at every turn. [John S. Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present," 1890, p.252]
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