5/9/2018 10:15:00 AM
那些優雅的花兒的英文名字
RHODODENDRON杜鵑
Like many other flower names, rhododendron enters the English record in the mid-1500s. The name literally means “rose tree” in Greek. It’s an apt name, for this shrub or small tree blooms with brilliant, rose-colored flowers.
和其他眾多鮮花名一樣，rhododendron（杜鵑）是16世紀中葉傳入英語中的。Rhododendron在希臘語中的意思是“玫瑰樹”。這個名字非常貼切，因為這種像小樹一樣的灌木植物能開出鮮艷的玫瑰色花朵。
FORGET-ME-NOT勿忘我
The name forget-me-not was a direct translation
from the Old French ne m’oubliez mye (“do not forget me”). Renaissance
romantics believed that, if they wore these soft-colored flowers, they
would never be forgotten by their lovers, making the flower a symbol of
fidelity and everlasting love.
勿忘我的英語名字forget-me-not直接翻譯自古法語“ne m’oubliez mye（勿忘我）”。文藝復興時期的浪漫主義者認為，如果他們戴上這種色彩柔和的花朵，就永遠不會被愛人遺忘。勿忘我因此成為忠誠永恒愛情的象征。
DAISY雛菊
The word daisy has deep roots in the English language. As attested to in some of English’s earliest records, daisy comes from the Old English phrase d?gesege: the “day’s eye,” as the flower’s white petals close at dusk and open at dawn, like the eye of the day as it sleeps and wakes.
Daisy是一個地地道道的英語單詞。根據一些英語相關的早期記載，Daisy來自于古英語短語d?gesege，意思是“日之眼”。白色的雛菊黎明花開，黃昏花謝，就像是每一天的眼睛一樣睡去醒來。
VIOLET紫羅蘭
Before we had the color violet, recorded by the late 1300s, we had the flower violet, emerging some decades earlier in the same century. Violet grows out of the French violete or violette, a diminutive of viole, in turn the Latin viola, its name for this distinctively purple flower. This viola has no etymological relationship to the instrument. Some scholars suspect Latin got viola from the Greek name for the plant, ion.
據記載，在14世紀末期人們用violet表示紫羅蘭色，而再往前幾十年，也是在14世紀，violet就指代紫羅蘭鮮花。Violet來自于法語中的violete或violette，它們是viole的指小詞，而viole來自于拉丁語單詞viola，也就是拉丁語中對這種獨特的紫色花朵的稱呼。拉丁文viola（英語中有中提琴的意思）和中提琴毫無關系。一些學者認為，它來自于希臘語中對紫羅蘭的稱呼ion。
CARNATION 康乃馨
According to one, carnation may be a corruption of coronation, perhaps because the flower’s toothed petals resembled crowns or because the flowers were worn, crown-like, as garlands. carnation可能是coronation（加冕禮）的變體，因為康乃馨的鋸齒狀花瓣好像皇冠，又或者是因為人們把這種花當花冠佩戴。
PEONY牡丹
The peony, a word found in Old English, was believed to have healing properties in early medicine, which is why its name might honor Paion, the physician of the gods in Greek mythology.
牡丹的英文名peony起源于古英語，在早期醫學中，人們認為牡丹具有療傷功效，因此，可能根據希臘神話中眾神的醫生Paion，將其命名為peony。
TULIP郁金香
Passing into English via Dutch or German in the late 1500s, tulip actually comes from the Turkishtülbent, based on the Persian dulband:“turban.” The flower, to its ancient namers, resembled the male headwear worn throughout the Middle East, India, and parts of Africa.
16世紀晚期，tulip（郁金香）從荷蘭語或德語中傳入英語，這個單詞實際上源自于Turkishtülbent。Turkishtülbent來自于波斯語dulband，指“穆斯林的頭巾”。按照郁金香古代名字的意思，這種花好像中東、印度以及非洲部分地區男性的頭飾。
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