dye
dye
noun
dyed in the wool
dyeable
adjective
语源
noun
- [mass noun]a natural or synthetic substance used to add a colour to or change the colour of something
染料
- [with obj.]add a colour to or change the colour of (something) by soaking it in a solution impregnated with a dye
给…染色，染
[with complement]I dyed my hair blonde.
我将头发染成金黄色。
[as adj. dyed]dyed black hair.
染过的黑发。
■[no obj.]take colour well or badly during such a process
被染上颜色，被着色
it's good material—it should dye well.
这是好材料——应该容易上色。
dyed in the wool
- unchanging in a particular belief or opinion; inveterate
彻头彻尾的，十足的；根深蒂固的
she's a true blue dyed-in-the-wool Conservative.
她是个彻头彻尾的保守党分子。
dyeable
adjective
语源
- Old English dēag (noun), dēagian (verb). The noun is not recorded from Old English to the late 16th cent., when it was re-formed from the verb
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