1. Mary has felt blue ever since her boyfriend left for Europe.

自從她男朋友去了歐洲以后，瑪莉一直感到悶悶不樂。

2. You get a chance like this only once in a blue moon.

這種機會真是千載難逢。

3. You can talk till all is blue but I shall not believe it.

你可以沒完沒了地說下去，但我是不會相信你的。

4. Do you see any green in my eye?

你以為我那么好騙嗎?

5. Although he is physically old, his mind is still in the green.

盡管他身體已經衰老，但是思想還是很活躍。

6. She is red with anger.

她氣得滿臉通紅。

7. All the family is in the pink.

全家人的身體都好極了。

8. Though I believe in telling the truth, I think a white lie is sometimes justified.

雖然我認為應該說實話，但我認為善意的謊言有時也是無可非議的。

9. He insisted on putting the agreement down in black and white.

他堅持要把這項協議用白紙黑字寫下來。

10. Henrywas beaten black and blue, you can’t see a white spot about him.

亨利被打得遍體鱗傷，全身沒一塊好肉。

11. I’m glad that he is not so black as he is painted.

我很高興他不是像你說的那么壞。

12. They came out of the bank carrying the money and the police caught them red-handed.

他們帶著贓款從銀行里出來，被警察當場捉住。

13. We will soon be out of the red.

我們不久就要轉虧為盈了。

14. I can’t even talk about it, except to you, because anybody else would think I was yellow.

除你之外，這種事不能對別人說，因為他們會覺得我是個膽小鬼。

15. They choose a white day for their engagement.

他們選擇吉日訂婚。

16. He is the kind of person who calls white black.

他就是那種顛倒黑白的人。