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blue ribbon

蓝丝带,蓝带,蓝色丝带,蓝色缎带

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the highest award or distinction, as the first prize in a contest: His entry at the state fair won a blue ribbon.
    • : a blue ribbon worn as a badge of honor, especially by members of the Order of the Garter of the British knighthood.
    • : Also British, Blue Ribband. a prize awarded to an ocean liner making the fastest recorded trip across the Atlantic Ocean between Ambrose Lightship and Bishop Rock.
    • : a badge used by some temperance organizations to indicate a pledge of abstinence from alcohol.

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Examples

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.

  • GOP leaders refused; they saw that Duke was pulling blue-collar Democrats to the party.

  • It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.

  • They looked up into the blue sky as the helicopters flew over in a lost man formation.

  • In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.

  • Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!

  • His nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.

  • The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.

  • He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.