olive-green
olive-green — 名詞
1. a muted yellow-green shade, like the skin of an unripe olive
橄欖綠
像青橄欖的暗綠色
a muted yellow-green shade, like the skin of an unripe olive
Devika added more yellow until the paint became a dusty olive-green.
Devika 又多加了一些黃色，直到油漆變成帶灰感的橄欖綠。
colour noun after become
The living room needed a warmer olive-green to suit the wooden floor.
這間客廳需要更暖一點的橄欖綠，才配得上木地板。
Mayumi chose olive-green for the kitchen walls instead of pale grey.
Mayumi 為廚房牆面選了橄欖綠，而不是淡灰色。
choose + colour for [surface]
A stripe of olive-green ran around the edge of the old map.
一條橄欖綠的色帶沿著這張舊地圖的邊緣延伸。
Under the weak lamp, the fabric looked more brown than olive-green.
在微弱的燈光下，那塊布看起來比較像棕色，不太像橄欖綠。
compare shades with than
- deep olive-green
- dusty olive-green
- a shade of olive-green
- paint in olive-green
文法句型
olive-green + verb
a shade of olive-green
用法筆記
This sense names the colour itself and is usually uncountable. When the word directly describes an object, use the adjective sense: an olive-green coat; the coat is olive-green.
常見錯誤
olive-green — 形容詞
1. having the dull yellow-green colour associated with unripe olives
橄欖綠色的
呈橄欖綠色的
having the dull yellow-green colour associated with unripe olives
Christopher wore an olive-green field jacket on the mountain hike.
Christopher 去爬山時穿著一件橄欖綠色的野外夾克。
attributive: olive-green + clothing noun
The bathroom tiles are olive-green, with cream paint above them.
浴室磁磚是橄欖綠色的，上方刷著奶油色油漆。
predicative: be + olive-green
Sora bought olive-green curtains to soften the bright afternoon sun.
Sora 買了橄欖綠色的窗簾，想把午後強烈的陽光柔和下來。
After weeks of rain, the river turned an olive-green colour.
連下幾週雨後，河水變成了橄欖綠色。
change-of-colour verb: turn + olive-green
The campers followed olive-green markers through the wet pine forest.
露營的人沿著橄欖綠色的標記穿過潮濕的松林。
- olive-green jacket
- olive-green paint
- olive-green uniform
- olive-green curtains
- olive-green markers
- olive
shorter form, but it can also suggest skin tone or the fruit.
- khaki
closer to brown and sand tones than olive-green.
- moss-green
usually deeper and wetter-looking than olive-green.
文法句型
olive-green + noun
be + olive-green
用法筆記
This sense is most common for clothes, paint, walls, and military gear. If you are naming the shade itself rather than describing an object, use noun sense 1.
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- olive-green paint
- olive-green jacket
- olive-green uniform
- olive-green walls
常用片語
- a shade of olive-green
- painted olive-green
- turn olive-green