bluestone
noun uk/ˈbluː.stəʊn/ us/ˈbluː.stoʊn/
[ U ]青石，蓝石
stone used as a building material that is blue or similar to blue in colour
The new pathways will be lined with bluestone. 新的小路将用青石铺成。
The Inn has been created out of a former fire station, a bluestone Victorian building. 客栈是在一个前消防站的基础上创建的，这是一座青石制的维多利亚式建筑。
[ C ]蓝石（在英格兰南部巨石阵古迹内，构成最古老部分的体积稍小的岩石之一）
one of the slightly smaller stones that form the inner, oldest part of the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southern England
Scientists believe the bluestones were first put in place about 2600 B. C. 科学家们认为，这些蓝石最早是在公元前2600年左右被放置在这里的。
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- We could have finished it last week if you'd let us use a concrete lintel, but you insist on traditional bluestone.
- As concrete pavements replaced bluestone, the quarrying industry declined.
- The simple thirteenth-century Chapel boasts a wonderful eighth-century Celtic ringed cross made from the local "bluestone", which is, in fact, a rich bottle-green.
- As for the smaller bluestones, archaeologists still disagree about their origins and transport.
- The bluestones that make up the monument are believed to have originated from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales.
- His dig uncovered masses of fragments carved out of the bluestones by people to create amulets.