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Violet ˈvaɪələt Small Plant Purple White Bluish Purple Shrinking

Violet refers to a small plant with purple flowers, the color bluish-purple, and idiomatically, a shy or retiring person (often in the phrase "no shrinking violet").

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violet ★☆☆☆☆
/va͟ɪ͟əlɪt/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]紫罗兰 A violet is a small plant that has purple or white flowers in the spring.
    2
    [COLOUR 颜色词]紫罗兰色;紫色 Something that is violet is a bluish-purple colour.
    • The light was beginning to drain from a violet sky.

      光线开始从紫罗兰色的天空渐渐消退。

    3
    [PHRASE 短语]羞怯的人;腼腆的人 If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
      [usu with brd-neg]
    • When it comes to expressing himself he is no shrinking violet...

      他在表达自己的想法时毫不羞怯。

    • None of the women he paints, however, could be described as shrinking violets.

      然而,他画过的所有女人中没有一个是羞涩腼腆的。


    Oxford vio·let / ˈvaɪələt ; NAmE ˈvaɪələt / noun 1 [countable ] a small wild or garden plant with purple or white flowers with a sweet smell that appear in spring 紫罗兰 2 [uncountable ] a bluish-purple colour 蓝紫色;紫罗兰色 dressed in violet 身着蓝紫色衣服的 vio·let adjective violet eyes 蓝紫色的眼睛 IDIOMsee
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    violet violets
    vio·let / ˈvaɪələt ; NAmE ˈvaɪələt /
    LDC
    violetvi‧o‧let /ˈvaɪəlɪt/ noun
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    1[countable] a plant with small dark purple flowers, or sometimes white or yellow ones2[uncountable] a bluish-purple colourviolet adjective:  beautiful violet eyes
    WDF

    violet

    [ˈvaɪələt]

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    紫色(44%),紫罗兰(40%),紫色的(16%)
    n.紫罗兰;堇菜;羞怯的人
    adj.紫色的;紫罗兰色的
    n.(Violet)人名;(西)比奥莱特;(法)维奥莱;(印、匈、英)维奥莱特

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