livid

英 ['lɪvɪd] 美 ['lɪvɪd]

• adj. 铅色的；苍白的；暴怒的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. anemic looking from illness or emotion;

   "a face turned ashen"
   "the invalid's blanched cheeks"
   "tried to speak with bloodless lips"
   "a face livid with shock"
   "lips...livid with the hue of death"
   "lips white with terror"
   "a face white with rage"
   

2. (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity;

   "livid lightning streaked the sky"
   "a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day"
   

3. furiously angry;

   "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"
   

4. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin;

   "beaten black and blue"
   "livid bruises"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Livid lightning streaked the sky.
   乌青色的闪电划破了天空。
2. Her face turned livid with rage.
   她气得脸色铁青。
3. The jailor brought up another livid prisoner.
   那个狱卒又带来了一个面无人色的犯人。
4. He'd be livid if he found out what you're doing.
   要是他知道了你干的事,他准得大发雷霆。

经典引文

• Her left leg showed a livid ripple of varicose vein.

  出自： J. Updike

近反义词

【近义词】

• furious 狂怒的
• pale 苍白的
• grayish 浅灰色的
• angry 生气的
• bloodless 无血色的
• peaked 有遮檐的
• black-and-blue 被打的
• up in arms 起来进行武装斗争(感到愤...
• beside yourself 失常(忘形
• incensed 激怒的
• fuming 冒烟
• discolored 脱色的
• bruised 瘀伤的
• purple 紫色的
• very 很
• blanched 动词blanch的过去式...
• white 白色的
• ashen 灰色的