Xanh lá cây, lục

Xanh; tươi

green fruit

quả xanh

green timber

gỗ tươi

green hide

da sống

Đầy sức sống; thanh xuân

green years

tuổi xanh, tuổi thanh xuân

Chưa có kinh nghiệm, mới vào nghề; thơ ngây, cả tin

a green hand

thợ mới vào nghề

to be still green at one's job

mới làm việc còn bỡ ngỡ

to be not so green as to believe something

không ngây thơ đến nỗi tin một điều gì

Tái xanh, tái ngắt (nước da)

to look green

tái xanh, tái mét

looking green with jealousy

tái đi vì ghen tức

(nghĩa bóng) ghen, ghen tức, ghen tị

a green eye

sự ghen tị

Còn mới, chưa lành, chưa liền (vết thương)

a green wound

vết thương còn mới

Màu xanh lá cây, màu xanh lục

Quần áo màu lục

to be dressed in green

mặc quần áo màu lục

Phẩm lục (để nhuộm)

Paris green

phẩm lục Pa-ri

Cây cỏ

Bãi cỏ xanh, thảm cỏ xanh

( số nhiều) rau

(nghĩa bóng) tuổi xanh, tuổi thanh xuân; sức sống, sức cường tráng

in the green

đang ở tuổi thanh xuân đầy nhựa sống

Vẻ cả tin; vẻ ngây thơ non nớt

do you see any green in my eye?

anh trông tôi có vẻ gì ngây thơ non nớt không?

Trở nên xanh lá cây, hoá thành màu lục

Làm cho xanh, nhuộm lục

(từ lóng) bịp, lừa bịp

màu lục

cây xanh

green area

khu cây xanh

green area

vùng có cây xanh

green belt

dải cây xanh

green belt

vành đai cây xanh

green density

mật độ cây xanh

green fence

hàng rào cây xanh

green space

khối cây xanh

green space

khu cây xanh

green zone

vùng cây xanh

public green zone

vùng cây xanh công cộng

restricted-use green zone

vùng cây xanh hạn chế (sử dụng)

urban green space

cây xanh đô thị

lục

màu xanh

blue-green laser

laze màu xanh lam

chrome green

màu xanh crôm

green beam laser

laze chùm màu xanh lục

opposing green

màu xanh đối

bãi cỏ xanh

cây cỏ

Adj.

Verdant, grassy, fresh, leafy; rural, country-like:Plans call for a green belt to be created around every majorcity.

Immature, unripe, unripened; na‹ve, callow, untested,untrained, unversed, inexperienced, new, raw, unseasoned,unsophisticated, gullible, amateur, unskilled, unskilful,amateurish, non-professional, inexpert, Colloq wet behind theears: This banana is still too green to eat. Isn't Piers a bitgreen to be given so much responsibility? 3 environmental,conservationist: The green activists appear to be gaininginfluence in governmental circles.

N.

Lawn, sward, common, grassland: Let us meet on thevillage green at noon.

Environmentalist, conservationist,preservationist: The greens are opposed to draining themarshes.

Adj., n., & v.

Adj.

Of the colour between blue and yellowin the spectrum; coloured like grass, emeralds, etc.

Acovered with leaves or grass. b mild and without snow (a greenChristmas).

(of fruit etc. or wood) unripe or unseasoned.

Not dried, smoked, or tanned.

Inexperienced, na‹ve, gullible.6 a (of the complexion) pale, sickly-hued. b jealous, envious.7 young, flourishing.

Not withered or worn out (a green oldage).

Vegetable (green food; green salad).

(also Green)concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as apolitical principle.

Archaic fresh; not healed (a greenwound).

N.

A green colour or pigment.

Green clothes ormaterial (dressed in green).

A a piece of public or commongrassy land (village green). b a grassy area used for a specialpurpose (putting-green; bowling-green). c Golf a putting-green.d Golf a fairway.

(in pl.) green vegetables.

Vigour,youth, virility (in the green).

A green light.

A greenball, piece, etc., in a game or sport.

(also Green) a memberor supporter of an environmentalist group or party.

(in pl.)sl. sexual intercourse.

Sl. low-grade marijuana.

Sl.money.

Green foliage or growing plants.

V.

Tr. & intr.make or become green.

Tr. sl. hoax; take in.

Whey cheese.

Unripenedcheese. Green Cloth (in full Board of Green Cloth) (in the UK)the Lord Steward's department of the Royal Household. greencrop a crop used as fodder in a green state rather than as hayetc. green drake the common mayfly. green earth a hydroussilicate of potassium, iron, and other metals. green-eyedjealous. the green-eyed monster jealousy. green fat part of aturtle, highly regarded by gourmets. green-fee Golf a chargefor playing one round on a course. green fingers skill ingrowing plants. green goose a goose killed under four monthsold and eaten without stuffing. green in a person's eye a signof gullibility (do you see any green in my eye?). green leekany of several green-faced Australian parakeets. green light 1a signal to proceed on a road, railway, etc.

Colloq.permission to go ahead with a project. green linnet =GREENFINCH. green manure growing plants ploughed into the soilas fertilizer. green meat grass and green vegetables as food.Green Paper (in the UK) a preliminary report of Governmentproposals, for discussion. green plover a lapwing. green poundthe exchange rate for the pound for payments for agriculturalproduce in the EEC. green revolution greatly increased cropproduction in underdeveloped countries. green-room a room in atheatre for actors and actresses who are off stage. green-stickfracture a bone-fracture, esp. in children, in which one side ofthe bone is broken and one only bent. green tea tea made fromsteam-dried, not fermented, leaves. green thumb = greenfingers. green turtle a green-shelled sea turtle, Cheloniamydas, highly regarded as food. green vitriol ferrous sulphatecrystals.

Greenish adj. greenly adv. greenness n. [OEgrene (adj. & n.), grenian (v.), f. Gmc, rel. to GROW]