Historically, this color came from natural plant-derived indigo.

历史上，这个颜色取自于自然植物靛蓝色。

And so we think they're referring probably to the earliest Old World indigo-blue dyed textiles.

不过，我们认为它们指可能是最古老靛蓝色纺织品。

And it's in South America that researchers recently found the oldest known example of fabrics dyed with indigo.

最近，研究人员就在南美洲发现了目前已最古老靛蓝染色布料。

He knows by smell and feel the right state of the indigo coloring, which he compares to a living thing.

他通过嗅和触靛蓝颜色正确状态，他把它比作一个有生命东西。

Yet IndiGo's strategy may prove farsighted.

然而靛蓝航空战略或许被证明是见卓识。

Her exquisite figure was enhanced by a wonderful gown of indigo charmeuse.

一件精美靛蓝色查米尤斯礼服衬托出她优美身材。

Really? - Well, I got an indiglo girls cd.

真吗 -我有张靛蓝女孩唱片。

And so here we have microbes growing on a plate where they're producing indigo in the same way that the dye plant would make indigo.

我们微生物生长在这块平板上，它们生产靛蓝方式和染料厂生产靛蓝方式一样。

So that would date to about 5,000 years ago, 3100 B.C.

因此，靛蓝色染料历史可追溯到5000年前，即大约公元前3100年。

But like Athey, she worries about the potential impact of the chemicals used to make indigo dye.

但和 Athey 一样， 她担心用于制造靛蓝染料化学品潜在影响。

Last year it ordered 470 aircraft, not far off IndiGo's record-breaking order.

去年，该公司订购了 470 架飞机，与靛蓝航空创纪录订单量相差不。

I was wearing my French peasant's jacket in indigo denim, a minidress and a pair of army boots.

我穿着我靛蓝牛仔布法国农民夹克，一条迷你裙和一双军靴。

And the earliest known indigo blue textiles were from Egypt and they date to around 4400 B.P., before present.

此前已最古老靛蓝色纺织品来自于古埃及，距今大约4400年。

So I think these gentle blues and darker blues, these like almost like indigos are our colors.

所以我认为这些柔和蓝色和深蓝色，这些几乎像靛蓝一样是我们颜色。

" And it was at that point that I realized we probably had indigo and it was probably the world's oldest indigo."

“就在那时我意识到，我们发现可能是是靛蓝色，而且这可能是世界上最古老靛蓝色。”

Indigo sticks to the outside of fibers, and in hot water, the dye gradually fades instead of seeping deeper into the material.

靛蓝粘在纤维外面，在热水中，染料逐渐褪色，而不是更深地渗入材料中。

Cinderpelt stood at Bluestar's head and gazed into the indigo sky, where the first stars of Silverpelt were beginning to appear.

炭毛站在蓝星头顶，凝视着靛蓝色天空，银毛第一颗星星正在那里开始出现。

IndiGo's main competitor, Air India, the formerly state-owned carrier that was privatised in 2022, is in the midst of a costly turnaround.

靛蓝航空主要竞争对手印度航空，这家前国有航空公司于 2022 年实现私有化，目前正处于代价高昂转型期。

Today's jeans are colored with synthetic indigo dye. (Synthetic means it is made by people.) Some chemicals in the dye are toxic.

今天牛仔裤是用成靛蓝染料染色。 （成意味着它是由人制造。）染料中一些化学物质是有毒。

When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d.

当种植园靛蓝价格是最好法国靛蓝价格四分之三时， 根据该法案， 它有权获得 6 便士赏金。