purple

名词 purple:

1. a purple color or pigment
   同义词：purpleness
2. of imperial status

动词 purple:

1. become purple
2. color purple
   同义词：empurple, purpurate

形容词 purple:

1. of a color intermediate between red and blue
   同义词：violet, purplish
2. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
   同义词：embellished, empurpled, over-embellished
3. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
   同义词：imperial, majestic, regal, royal

1. There midnight's all a glimmer and noon (is) a purple glow.
   那儿午夜浮光微摇，中午紫光争耀。
2. That plant with purple flowers is flag.
   那种开紫花的植物是菖蒲。
3. The juniper is a type of evergreen bush with purple berries.
   杜松子是一种生有紫红色浆果的常绿灌木。
4. The plant has a brilliant purple floweret.
   那棵植物开着鲜艳的小紫花。
5. Crocuses are yellow, purple or white flowers which bloom early in spring.
   番红花是一种黄色、紫色或白色并在初春时开放的花。
6. I like to eat purple mulberries.
   我喜欢吃紫色的桑葚。
7. He was born to the purple.
   他出身皇族。
8. That girl likes to wear purple dresses.
   那个女孩喜欢穿紫色的衣服。

pur.ple

n.（名词）
Color Any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red.
【色彩】 紫红色：一种介于紫色与红色之间的颜色
Cloth of a color between violet and red, formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office.
紫红色衣服：颜色介于紫色与红色之间的衣服，曾表示穿着者是皇室或高官的象征
Imperial power; high rank:
皇权；高等级：
例句：
born to the purple.
生于皇室

Roman Catholic Church
【罗马天主教】
The rank or office of a cardinal.
红衣主教的地位或身份
The rank or office of a bishop.
教皇的地位或身份
adj.（形容词）
Color Of the color purple.
【色彩】 紫红色的
Royal or imperial; regal.
贵族或皇室的；帝王的
Elaborate and ornate:
华丽且过分修饰的：
例句：
purple prose.
华丽的散文

v.tr.intr.（及物动词和不及物动词）
pur.pled,pur.pling,pur.ples
To make or become purple.
（使）变成紫红色

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old English purpul
源自 古英语 purpul
from purpure [purple garment]
源自 purpure [紫红色外套]
from Latin purpura [shellfish yielding purple dye, purple cloth, purple]
源自 拉丁语 purpura [带有紫红色的有壳水生物，紫红色的衣服，紫红色]
from Greek porphura [a shellfish yielding purple dye]
源自 希腊语 porphura [带有紫红色的有壳水生物]