1. GREEN:
(0)He is still green to his job.
他对其工作尚无经验。
(1)Do you see any green in my eye?
你认为我幼稚可欺吗?
(2)lf you want to be a successful gardener,of course you’ve gotto have green fingers.
假如你想当个称职的园工,那你就得有园艺技能。
(3)She is a green hand in teaching English.
在英语教学中,他还是个生手。
(4)Mother gave us the green light to go on the camping trip this summer.
妈妈准许我们今年夏天去野营一次。
(5)He has a green wound in the left breast.
他左胸上有一新伤口。
2. BLUE:
(6)He is proud of his blue blood.
他因出身名门贵族而骄傲。
(7)Things are looking extremely blue.
情况极其不妙。
(8)True blue will never stain.
真金不怕火炼。
(9)She ran and ran until she was blue in the face.
她跑啊跑啊,累得脸色发青精疲力竭。
(10)lt’s once in a blue moon that you get a chance like that.
你得到的是个千载难逢的机会。
(11)He can read like a blue streak.
他看书极快。
(12)The bad news came like a bolt out of the blue.
这消息来得如青天霹雳。
(13)John arrived out of the blue.
约翰突然来了。
(14)A rainy day always gives me the blues.
下雨天总是使我心情抑郁。
3 BROWN:
(15)The leaves browned slowly.
树叶渐渐枯了。
(16)We are all of us done brown.
我们都上当了。
(17)When she gives a dinner party,she always does it up brown.
她举行宴会,总是办得很出色。
(18)l’m browned off,sitting here all day with nothing to do.
我整天坐在这儿没事干,感到抑郁无聊。
(19)Aim at one bird, don’t blaze into the brown.
瞄准一只打,不要射击鸟群。
(20)l tried to attract his attention,but he was in a brown study.
我企图吸引他的注意力可是他仍在沉思默想。
4. BLACK:
(21)The black dog is over him.
他意气消沉。
(22)Tom is the black sheep of his family.
汤姆是个败家子。
(23)Next time l see him, l’ll give him a black eye.
下次我见到他一定打他一顿。
5、RED:
(1)The president was treated to the redcarpet in Rome.
总统在罗马受到了隆重的接待。