Tyrian purple
基本解釋
- adj. 紫色的
- n. 紫色
英漢例句
- To obtain one ounce of Tyrian purple dye, she had her servants soak 20, 000 Purpura snails for 10 days.
爲了獲得一盎司提爾紫色染料,她讓僕人將20 000個紫癜蝸牛浸泡10天。 - Some example are indigo, from the indigo plant, and Tyrian purple , the imperial purple the Romans prepared from a shellfish native to the Mediterranean.
例如靛藍,來自靛藍色植物。泰爾紫也叫帝紫,古羅馬人從原産於地中海的貝殼類動物制作的。 - Any of various marine gastropods of the genus Murex common in tropical seas and having rough, spiny shells, especially M. trunculus, the source of Tyrian purple.
骨螺一種盛産在熱帶海洋的海生骨螺屬腹足類動物,殼粗糙而常有棘尤指M。
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雙語例句
英英字典
- a deep purple dye obtained from molluscs of the genus Murex and highly prized in antiquity