| 释义 |
purple adjective—紫 adj (almost always used) 紫色 adj (almost always used) 绿色 adj Examples:Dioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop)—flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye—golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom); in official position—purple cloud (auspicious portent in astrology)—Purple Mountain Observatory—white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom); common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle—Lithospermum erythrorhizon (flowering plant whose root provides red purple dye)—Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum—Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable—purple qipao gown, the sign of an official position—amethyst (purple crystalline silicon dioxide)— |