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

自从她男朋友去了欧洲以后，玛莉一直感到闷闷不乐。

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

这种机会真是千载难逢。

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

你可以没完没了地说下去，但我是不会相信你的。

4. Do you see any green in my eye?

你以为我那么好骗吗?

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

尽管他身体已经衰老，但是思想还是很活跃。

6. She is red with anger.

她气得满脸通红。

7. All the family is in the pink.

全家人的身体都好极了。

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

虽然我认为应该说实话，但我认为善意的谎言有时也是无可非议的。

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

他坚持要把这项协议用白纸黑字写下来。

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

亨利被打得遍体鳞伤，全身没一块好肉。

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

我很高兴他不是像你说的那么坏。

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

他们带着赃款从银行里出来，被警察当场捉住。

13. We will soon be out of the red.

我们不久就要转亏为盈了。

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

除你之外，这种事不能对别人说，因为他们会觉得我是个胆小鬼。

15. They choose a white day for their engagement.

他们选择吉日订婚。

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

他就是那种颠倒黑白的人。