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

历史上，这个取自于自然植物的。

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

不过，我们认为它们指的可能是最古老的纺织品。

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知最古老的染布料。

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

他通过嗅觉和触觉知道的正确状态，他把它比作一个有生命的东西。

Yet IndiGo's strategy may prove farsighted.

然而航空的战略或许被证明是见卓识的。

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

一件精美的查米尤斯礼服衬托出她优美的身材。

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

真的吗 -我有张孩组合的唱片。

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.

我们的微生物生长在这块平板上，它们生产的方式和染料厂生产的方式一样。

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

因此，染料的历史可追溯到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， 她担心用于制造染料的化学品的潜在影响。

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，与航空创纪录的订单量相差不。

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

我穿着我的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.

此前已知最古老的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的和深，这些几乎像一样是我们的。

" 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，我们发现的可能是是，而且这可能是世界上最古老的。”

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

粘在纤维的外面，在热水中，染料逐渐褪，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.

炭毛站在星的头顶，凝视着的天空，银毛的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.

航空的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的转型期。

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

今天的牛仔裤是用合成染料染的。 （合成意味着它是由人制造的。）染料中的一些化学物质是有毒的。

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.

当种植园的价格是最好的法国价格的四分之三时， 根据该法案， 它有权获得 6 便士的赏金。