The man 's collar was a dirty white
为什么用a dirty white
能说a white吗？
参考答案:给你个例子吧
David Ebert, a Rancho Santa Fe water district executive, committed the same crime Longanbach did. He commandeered the services of underlings for his own benefit (ordering secretaries to do homework assignments, run personal errands, and so on)...
Now in dirty-white-collar cases like these, two charges naturally arise: misuse of public funds and grand theft. They're the two sides of the same stolen coin.
—Logan Jenkins, "Slap on wrist seems par for the course in Longanbach saga," The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2, 2002
在这个例子中 dirty white指的是做为白领滥用公款
dirty white collar和 white collar的意思是完全不同的 不要混淆