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having the colour of blue and red mixed together 紫色的 a purple flower/dress 紫色的花/連衣裙 His face was purple with rage. 他氣得臉色發紫。 The effort was making her face turn purple. 努力讓她的臉變紫。 It produces lovely dark purple berries around this time of year. 每年的這個時候,它會結出可愛的深紫色漿果。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- slightly
- bright
- vivid
- dark
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- purple in the face
- purple with rage
- purple prose/passage
writing or a piece of writing that is too grand in style 華麗的文辭;雕琢的章句
Word OriginOld English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this.