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

历史上，个颜色取自于自然植物靛蓝色。

Barely a few sparse floes, some moving icebergs; a sea stretching into the distance; hosts of birds in the air and myriads of fish under the waters, which varied from intense blue to olive green depending on the depth.

近边只有一些散乱冰块和冰层，远方一片大海，空中是群鸟世界；水底下有千亿万鱼类，水颜色随深浅不同，现出从深浓靛蓝至橄览青绿。

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.

我们微生物生长在块平板上，它们生产靛蓝方式和染料厂生产靛蓝方式一样。

" 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。

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正确状态，他把它比作一个有生命东西。

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前，即大约公元前3100。

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靛蓝染色布料。

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

不过，我们认它们指可能是最古老靛蓝色纺织品。

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

此前已知最古老靛蓝色纺织品来自于古埃及，距今大约4400。

Indigo's foundational guess was that this special something is often in the rhizosphere.

靛蓝基础假设是个特别东西通常存在于根际。

By the 18th century, coffee and indigo were also important slave-produced exports.

到18世纪，咖啡和靛蓝也成重要奴隶生产出口商品。

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。

I've invited some of these people to go see us at the Indigo Arena at O2, or I said, okay, come next time you're in New York, or do a Zoom call with my sales team.

我邀请了一些人去O2靛蓝竞技场看我们，或者我说， 好吧， 下次你来纽约时候过来，或者和我销售团队进行一个Zoom通话。

The company wanted to establish a trading post in Surat because Indian goods like pepper and indigo were harvested and produced and came on the market at random times.

公司希望在苏拉特建立一个贸易站，因像胡椒和靛蓝样印度商品是在不同时间收获和生产，并随机进入市场。

She had changed into indigo jeans and a white shirt, the collar of which revealed a large diamond pendant, and moved in a discreet cloud of perfume.

她换上了靛蓝色牛仔裤和白色衬衫，衬衫领口露出一个大钻石吊坠， 并散发着淡淡香水味。

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。

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

今天牛仔裤是用合成靛蓝染料染色。 （合成意思是由人工制造。）染料中一些化学物质是有毒。

Indigo, the airline they founded in 2006, is now India's largest, with over 60% of the domestic market by passenger volume.

他们于2006创立靛蓝航空，如今已成印度规模最大航空公司， 乘客量在国内市场占有率超过60%。

But then after the concert I went again, I'd come down, and it wasn't indigo, and I've never seen it since.

但是音乐会结束后我又去了，我下来时候， 它不再是靛蓝色，而且从那以后我就再也没见过。