green meat： a green hand：
green在财经领域还有下列意思： green back： green power： green stamp： green sheet green pound：
E. white
在英语中white常使人联想起清白，如： white war：
有些事物因其颜色为白而得名，如 white goods：white money： white coal： white elephant：white sale： the white way：
F. 其它颜色构成的词汇。 如： grey market： grey area： pink slip： yellow pages：
颜色词语的翻译，大致有以下四种方法：
（一）直译。基本按照原文的词语形式来翻译。如： White House red figure yellow pages
（二）改换颜色词。根据译入语（英汉翻译时，就是汉语了）的习惯，用读者熟悉的颜色词来改变原文的颜色词。如： black tea black and blue
（三）原文中无颜色词，译文中根据汉语的表达习惯，可以增加适当的颜色词。如 He didn't try in vain. Her eyes became moist.
（四）意译。有些颜色词语因为是习惯用法，有引申意义，这时，可以根据原文的意思，完全忽略原文的颜色词，而用译入语的适当词语来翻译。如： love pea pink slip a green hand
3。请翻译下列句子，注意颜色词语的翻译。
1) Green book
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2) He is a tall, burly fellow with long hair and more white than black to his
eyes.
3) Through a crack in the wall, the sky was a fish-belly grey. 4) His hair is touched with grey.
5) You look blue today. What's wrong with you? 6) He is green with jealousy. 7) All my hot words could not bring one tinge of color to those ivory cheeks or
one gleam of emotion to those abstracted eyes.
8) You are expecting too much of him. He is still green, you know.
4．翻译下列含有颜色词的词组：
blue Monday white rage white lie white night yellow journalism yellow dog red flag black dog black letter day black smith black sheep black leg
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