英:[ɪm'pɜ:pl]
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英:[ɪm'pɜ:pl]
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em·pur·ple
ihm puhr pl
第三人称单数:empurples
现在分词:empurpling
过去式:empurpled
过去分词:empurpled
词根:empurple
adj.empurpled 成紫色的
v.empurpled 把…染成紫色;变成紫色(empurple的过去分词)
transitive verb & intransitive verb
to color or become purple.
The first known use of empurple was in 1590
empyreannoun
the highest heaven or heavenly sphere
sky sense 1, heavens
empurpleverb
to tinge or color purple
empurpleverb
to tinge or color purple
1 We gazed till the rising sun sent up his first rays from behind the kindling and empurpled ocean, and our native shore lay clear and distinct before us.
2 The vast sky, empurpled, enveloped him in a blood-red light; and his obstinacy in remaining there caused a species of terror.
3 Has anybody gone through the ice?” questioned Leon sharply of the one older boy upon the bank, who turned upon him over a heaving shoulder the pleasant, ruddy face, empurpled by shock, of Coombsie.
4 But the heavy jaw thrust forth in truculent defiance; hate blazed forth from the deep-set eyes; the florid features were empurpled with rage.
5 It seems obvious now, but Updike was one of the first to show that you don’t have to write down about sports or empurple them, either.
6 Even the Bishop of Southwark, who represents empurpled pomp and eventually drives Lionel from office, has to cope simultaneously with national schism and parochial failure.
7 "Didst ever see the like o' that?" said Farmer Burtenshaw—one of the guests, whose round, honest face good wine had recently empurpled, but fear had now mottled white,—addressing a neighbor.
8 "Oh, yes, I'm Garth," he assured me, in a voice roughened by the same agent which had empurpled his nose.
9 Its face was empurpled with rage at its limited dominion.
10 I could see the base of the hill suddenly empurpled with smoke—a belt of conglomerate puffs rapidly merging into one another.
11 Beyond this lay a broad expanse of maddened water, blue and white, backed by the empurpled loom of a lofty headland, dim in the smoky distance.
12 Above this sea of white silence rose the mountain ranges, inexpressibly calm and beautiful, fresh from their bath of starlight and dew, and empurpled with softest tints of the early morning.
13 She ran out to the empurpled grass where the violets grew thickest, and gathered a small nosegay of the largest blossoms.
14 I tied it so tight as I could, fearful also of empurpling the forearm.
15 In winter, pheasants crouch under the brushwood or splutter through the trees; in summer the rhododendrons scent and empurple the woodland rides.
16 Do not let athletics spread their deadly, if in one sense empurpling, pall over your University life.
17 Henry Blaine noiselessly lowered their own window, and suddenly flashed an electric pocket light full in the heavy-jowled face, empurpled with inarticulate rage.
18 And the vastly peopled hall answered for Walt Whitman, as the empurpled Penrose did not answer.
19 Round came the false nose again, and this time the empurpled figure unclasped one hand of the hot cross-bun and waved a genial greeting as they stampeded by.
20 Both hands went up over her face, flattened there until the nails were empurpled, and she stood, bent as if cramped with pain, for the moment all movement paralyzed.