黑眼睛不是black eyes，那是什么？

黑头发是black hair，但黑眼睛却不是black eyes，大家在中英表达的切换中一定要注意这些小陷阱。

在英文中，dark eyes表示“黑眼睛，深色的眼珠”，而black eye表示的是“挨打之后的青眼圈”，即：

A bruise near one’s eye
（被殴打所致的）乌青的眼眶

例句：

Fred came home with a horrible black eye today, but he won’t tell us what happened!
弗雷德青着眼睛回家，却怎么也不告诉我们到底发生了什么！

除此之外，还有许多与黑色相关的英文表达容易被误解，千万不要踩坑哦~

Black and white

非黑即白的，即考虑问题的方式，非黑即白的，绝对化的。

Our boss always thinks that everything is straightforward, but he doesn’t realize that this whole situation is not as black and white as he thinks!
老板想问题总是太简单。他根本意识不到情况并非向他想的那样非黑即白！

Put sth down in black and white

白纸黑字，在纸上写下内容，用以确认或证明

I don't understand why you don't believe me! Look, it's written here in black and white!
白纸黑字摆在这，你为什么就是不信我！

Black as night

漆黑一片,伸手不见五指

We had another power cut last night; it was as black as night in our house. We didn’t even have any candles!
昨晚又断电了，屋里漆黑一片。我们连蜡烛都没有！

Black and blue

鼻青脸肿

John's face was black and blue after the boxing match.
拳赛过后，约翰脸上青一块紫一块。

Black out

灯火熄灭或失去知觉

We had a huge black out here last night, the whole town was out of power for about 7 hours!
昨晚我们这儿大断电，整座小镇连续七小时漆黑一片。

I don’t know what happened to him, he just blacked out! Maybe he banged his head.
不知道怎么回事，他突然就失去意识了！也许是碰着头了。

Black market

黑市交易，非法买卖场所

Jerry used to sell cigarettes from South America on the black market!
杰里曾在黑市贩卖过南美的香烟。

Blackball someone

反对某人

Their company has been blackballed ever since that scandal was all over the newspapers.
自从公司被爆出丑闻，便没有人再支持他们了。

In someone's black books

列入黑名册，很不讨人喜欢或不受欢迎

After that argument yesterday, I assure you he will be in a lot of people's black books for quite some time!
昨晚那场争执，估计你得罪了不少人！

编辑：然少

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