记忆方法
将“gray”与“grey”的拼写差异联系起来记忆：想象灰色像是一层灰蒙蒙的雾气（“grey”），然后简化记忆为“gray”，去除了一个字母“e”，这样就更容易记住正确的拼写。
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词族 · gray
中文词源
gray 灰白色
来自PIE*gher, 照耀，照明。此处指微光，灰白色。词义演变比较brown, 来自PIE*bher, 照耀，照明，词源同bright.
英语词源
- gray (adj.)
- "of a color between white and black; having little or no color or luminosity," Old English græg "gray" (Mercian grei), from Proto-Germanic *grewa- "gray" (cognates: Old Norse grar, Old Frisian gre, Middle Dutch gra, Dutch graw, Old High German grao, German grau), with no certain connections outside Germanic. French gris, Spanish gris, Italian grigio, Medieval Latin griseus are Germanic loan-words. The spelling distinction between British grey and U.S. gray developed 20c. Expression the gray mare is the better horse in reference to households ruled by wives is recorded from 1540s.
- gray (n.)
- c. 1200, from gray (adj.). Gray as figurative for "Southern troops in the U.S. Civil War" is first recorded 1863, in reference to their uniform color.
- gray (v.)
- "become gray, wither," 1610s (with an isolated instance from late 14c.), from gray (adj.). Related: Grayed; graying.
权威例句
- 1. His hair was disheveled, and his face was unshaven and gray.
- 他头发凌乱，没刮胡子，脸色苍白。
- 2. Lovett was a tall, commanding man with a waxed gray mustache.
- 洛维特是个威严的高个男人，蓄着灰白的八字胡。
- 3. I saw this nice-looking man in a gray suit.
- 我见到过这个身着灰色套装的英俊男士。
- 4. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
- 她竭力想把眼前的一缕白发吹开。
- 5. In the mornings the sky appeared a heavy shade of mottled gray.
- 清晨，天空呈现出斑驳的深灰色。