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Gorse is a tough evergreen bush with sharp spines and bright yellow flowers. It grows wild on hills, heaths and coasts in Britain, Ireland and other parts of western Europe. You cannot walk through it; the spines go through clothes. The flowers can smell a little like coconut, and in mild places the plant may bloom for much of the year, not only in spring. Country people also call it or whin, depending on where they live. It is a wild, prickly bush, not a flower you pick for a vase, and it is not a farm crop — though on poor, dry ground it can take over.
荊豆（歐洲常見的帶刺黃花灌木，台灣幾乎看不到；有人譯成金雀花，但金雀花也常指另一種植物）
組成From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”). Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compared with Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gorsenoun/ɡɔɹs/
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An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.
- The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。