A carnation is a garden flower with a sweet, slightly spicy smell and a full, ruffled head. The petals look as if someone gathered cloth and pinched it. You can get them in pink, red, white, yellow, and mixed colours; pink and red are the ones people picture first.

A carnation康乃馨 is a garden flower是一種園藝花卉 with a sweet, slightly spicy smell帶著甜甜、有點辛香的味道，and a full, ruffled head花朵飽滿、花瓣皺皺的。The petals花瓣 look as if someone gathered cloth and pinched it看起來就像有人把布抓起來捏過一樣。You你 can get them可以買到 in pink, red, white, yellow, and mixed colours粉紅、紅、白、黃，還有混色的；pink and red are the ones people picture first大家第一個想到的是粉紅色和紅色。

Men still wear a single carnation on a jacket at weddings and other formal days — a small, old-fashioned badge of dressing up. In this part of the world the flower is tightly tied to Mother’s Day: shops fill with pink and red carnations that week.

Men男士 still wear a single carnation on a jacket還是會在西裝外套上別一朵康乃馨 at weddings and other formal days在婚禮和其他正式場合——a small, old-fashioned badge of dressing up這是一種小小的、有點老派的正裝標誌。In this part of the world在我們這一帶，the flower is tightly tied to Mother's Day這種花跟母親節緊緊綁在一起：shops fill with pink and red carnations that week那個禮拜店裡到處都是粉紅色和紅色的康乃馨。

The name also drifted onto a pale pink, almost skin-coloured shade, because one old meaning of carnation was “the colour of flesh, a person’s complexion.” So the flower and the colour sit together, though most students will meet the flower first.

The name also drifted onto a pale pink, almost skin-coloured shade這個名字後來也用到一種淡粉、接近膚色的顏色上，because one old meaning of carnation was "the colour of flesh, a person's complexion."因為 carnation 有一個古老的意思是「肌膚的顏色、人的膚色」。So the flower and the colour sit together所以這種花跟這種顏色是連在一起的，though most students will meet the flower first不過大部分學生會先認識這種花。

It is an ordinary, slightly polite word — not slang, not technical.

It這個字 is an ordinary, slightly polite word是個普通、帶點禮貌感的字——not slang, not technical不是俚語，也不是專業術語。