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

历史上，这个颜色取自于自然植物的靛蓝色。

For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news.

这些首字母分别代表红、橙、黄、绿、蓝、靛、紫。而靛色最近有了新的消息。

This isn't the case with indigo dye.

靛蓝染料不是这种。

The Japanese indigo plant, for example, makes the blue dye molecule in its leaves.

例如，日本靛蓝植物在其叶子中制造蓝色染料分子。

The indigo plant is known in Traditional Chinese Medicine for being good for preventing colds.

板蓝根是中国人知的一种中药材，可以预防感冒。

As the indigo washes away, it brings minuscule amounts of thread with it.

当靛蓝被冲走时，它会带来少量的线头。

And this is down to indigo.

板蓝根正是最主要的染料原料。

Here, the indigo plant has matured, and people come out to greet its fields of blue.

这里因为板蓝根的了一片蓝色的海洋。

Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song – Mood Indigo – about the deep blue color, indigo.

艾灵顿公爵（Duke Ellington）与其乐队录制了一首著名的描述深蓝色的歌曲：Mood Indigo。

At nine feet in length, eastern indigos are considered to be the longest native snakes in the United States.

体长9英尺，东部靛蓝蛇是美国本土最长的蛇了。

The researchers grow the microbes in liquid culture, where they replicate and divide to produce the indigo color.

研究人员在液体培养中培养这些微生物，让它们能复制和分裂，产生靛蓝颜色。

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靛蓝染色布料。

So the blue and the white of an indigo tie-dye represent what is pure, open, and correct.

板蓝根染出的蓝与白表示清清白白、光明磊落。

And the blue, borrowed from nature, becomes real with the indigo harvest of the End of Heat solar term.

而那一抹蓝则是从自然里借来的颜色，带着处暑里那片板蓝根叶的灵魂。

Indigo dye was used around the ancient world in fabrics created from Egypt to China to Meso and South America.

靛蓝染料在古代用于对布料进行染色，而这些布料一般产自埃及、中国、中美洲以及南美洲等地方。

" The more you wash your denim, the lighter it will become, losing indigo with each wash, " he said.

“牛仔布洗得越多，颜色就会越淡，每次洗都会掉色。”

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靛蓝颜色的正确状态，他把它比作一个有生命的东西。

We also have indigo, Ronnie's favourite colour.

我们还有靛蓝，罗尼最喜欢的颜色。

For IndiGo, then, competition is bound to get tougher.

因此，对于靛蓝航空而言，竞争必将更加激烈。

Bee's wax and indigo are two widely used dyes.

蜂蜡和靛蓝是两种广泛使用的染料。