| 单词 | black |
| 例句 | black adjective 1.•a black horse:dark, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, ebony, sable, inky. ANT white. 2.•a black night:unlit, dark, starless, moonless, wan | literary tenebrous, Stygian. ANT clear, bright. 3.•thirty-seven percent of the school's students are black. See note below. 4.•the blackest day of the war:tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, fateful, wretched, woeful, awful, terrible | formal grievous. ANT joyful. 5.•Mary was in a black mood:miserable, unhappy, sad, wretched, broken-hearted, heartbroken, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, anguished, desolate, despairing, disconsolate, downcast, dejected, sullen, cheerless, melancholy, morose, gloomy, glum, mournful, doleful, funereal, dismal, forlorn, woeful, abject | informal blue | literary dolorous. ANT cheerful. 6.•black humor:cynical, macabre, weird, unhealthy, ghoulish, morbid, perverted, gruesome | informal sick. 7.•a black look:angry, vexed, cross, irritated, incensed. See also black out •he blacked out from the pain:faint, lose consciousness, pass out, swoon | informal go out. black something out •we blacked out our homes during the war:darken, shade, turn off the lights in | keep the light out of. in the black •our business is finally in the black:solvent, debt-free, out of debt, in credit, financially sound, able to pay one's debts, creditworthy. black and white 1.•a black-and-white picture:monochrome, gray-scale. 2.•I wish to see the proposals in black and white:in print, printed, written down, set down, on paper, recorded, on record, documented. 3.•in black-and-white terms:categorical, unequivocal, absolute, uncompromising, unconditional, unqualified, unambiguous, clear, clear-cut. USAGE black Black, designating Americans of African heritage, became the most widely used and accepted term in the 1960s and 1970s, replacing Negro. It is not usually capitalized: •black Americans. Through the 1980s, the more formal African American replaced black in much usage, but both are now generally acceptable. Afro-American, an earlier alternative to black, is heard mostly in anthropological and cultural contexts. Colored people, common earlier in the twentieth century, is now usually regarded as derogatory, although the phrase survives in the full name of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An inversion, people of color, has gained some favor, but is also used in reference to other nonwhite ethnic groups: •a gathering spot for African Americans and other people of color interested in reading about their cultures.Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage. |
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