英语词汇“purple heart”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

purple heart

noun

1 (Purple Heart) (In the US) a decoration for members of the armed forces wounded or killed in action, established in 1782 and re-established in 1932.Kerry won the Silver and Bronze Stars and three Purple Hearts (for wounds) in Vietnam, allowing him to return home in 1969....

His other decorations included the Purple Heart and the Air Medal.
Kerry was wounded and won five medals - three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star - while in charge of a so-called ‘Swift boat’ on the Mekong Delta.

2A large tree of the rainforests of Central and South America, with dark purplish-brown timber which blackens on contact with water.

Genus Peltogyne, family Leguminosae: several species.

Many trees change color once they are cut but the tropical American tree called purpleheart is especially famous for its chameleon-like quality.

3British informal A purple heart-shaped amphetamine tablet.Back at my old grammar school I learned from an old classmate that purple hearts - an illegal tablet popular in the Sixties - were on sale from pushers for half a crown in the senior common room....

The prospects of the Mods of Britain, darting off on their Italian scooters to seaside towns to rumble on bank holidays, hardly seems likely without little pills they affectionately called Purple Hearts.

单词	purple heart
释义	purple heart noun 1 (Purple Heart) (In the US) a decoration for members of the armed forces wounded or killed in action, established in 1782 and re-established in 1932.Kerry won the Silver and Bronze Stars and three Purple Hearts (for wounds) in Vietnam, allowing him to return home in 1969.... His other decorations included the Purple Heart and the Air Medal. Kerry was wounded and won five medals - three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star - while in charge of a so-called ‘Swift boat’ on the Mekong Delta. 2A large tree of the rainforests of Central and South America, with dark purplish-brown timber which blackens on contact with water. Genus Peltogyne, family Leguminosae: several species. Many trees change color once they are cut but the tropical American tree called purpleheart is especially famous for its chameleon-like quality. 3British informal A purple heart-shaped amphetamine tablet.Back at my old grammar school I learned from an old classmate that purple hearts - an illegal tablet popular in the Sixties - were on sale from pushers for half a crown in the senior common room.... The prospects of the Mods of Britain, darting off on their Italian scooters to seaside towns to rumble on bank holidays, hardly seems likely without little pills they affectionately called Purple Hearts.
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