blood

1. N-UNCOUNT Blood is the red liquid that flows inside your body, which you can see if you cut yourself. 血液

His shirt was covered in blood. 他的襯衫沾滿了血。

2. N-UNCOUNT You can use blood to refer to the race or social class of someone's parents or ancestors. 血統

There was Greek blood in his veins: his ancestors originally bore the name Karajannis. 他有希臘血統——他的祖先原來姓卡拉敭尼斯。

3. PHRASE If you say that there is bad blood between people, you mean that they have argued about something and dislike each other. 積怨

There is, it seems, some bad blood between Mills and the Baldwins. 米爾和鮑德溫兩家看上去好像有積怨。

4. PHRASE If something violent and cruel is done in cold blood, it is done deliberately and in an unemotional way. 殘忍蓄意地[表不滿]

The crime had been committed in cold blood. 這起案件是蓄意犯罪。

5. →see also cold-blooded

6. PHRASE If you say that someone has a person's blood on their hands, you mean that they are responsible for that person's death. 應對某人的死亡負責

He has my son's blood on his hands. I hope it haunts him for the rest of his days. 他應該對我兒子的死負責，但願他終生不得安甯。

7. PHRASE If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too. 天生遺傳的

Diplomacy was in his blood: his ancestors had been feudal lords. 他的外交能力是天生的：他的祖上曾是封建王侯。

8. PHRASE You can use the expressions new blood, fresh blood, or young blood to refer to people who are brought into an organization to improve it by thinking of new ideas or new ways of doing things. 新生力量

There's been a major reshuffle of the cabinet to bring in new blood. 內閣進行了重大改組以吸納新生力量。

9. flesh and blood→see flesh

10. own flesh and blood→see flesh