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A lily is a garden plant with a long stem and a large flower that opens like a bell or a star. White lilies are the picture most people hold — weddings, funerals, Easter — though actually lilies come in many colours: orange, pink, yellow, deep red. The smell can be very strong.
A lily百合 is a garden plant是一種園藝植物，with a long stem有長長的莖 and還有 a large flower一朵大花 that opens like a bell or a star開起來像鐘或星星。White lilies白色百合 are the picture most people hold是大多數人心裡的畫面 — weddings, funerals, Easter婚禮、喪禮、復活節 — though actually不過事實上 lilies百合 come in many colours有很多顏色：orange, pink, yellow, deep red橙色、粉紅、黃色、深紅。The smell味道 can be very strong可以很濃。
In everyday English, lily usually means this flower, not every plant with lily in its name. A water lily sits on a pond and is a different plant; a daylily looks similar but is not the same family.
In everyday English在日常英文裡，lily這個字 usually means通常指的是 this showy flower這種豔麗的花，not every plant with lily in its name不是所有名字裡有lily的植物。A water lily睡蓮 sits on a pond長在池塘上 and而且 is a different plant是不同的植物；a daylily萱草 looks similar看起來很像 but不過 is not the same family不是同一科。
People also use lily in set phrases for something pale or “too perfect,” but those are extra pictures from the flower, not extra kinds of plant.
People大家 also use lily in set phrases也會用lily放進固定片語裡 for something pale or "too perfect"來形容蒼白或「太完美」的東西，but不過 those are extra pictures from the flower這些是從這種花延伸出來的聯想，not extra kinds of plant不是別種植物。
組成From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlium (plural līlia), from Ancient Greek leírion. The English word does not split into smaller English pieces.
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- lily-liveredtakes the pale colour of the lily as a picture of no blood and no courage
- lily-whiteuses the same pale flower as a picture of pure white
原始詞典資料8 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。
Lilyname/ˈlɪli/
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A female given name from English, popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.
- "Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily." I remembered Horace having once told me that his mother's name had been Lilias.
- "Lily is such a romantic name. It sounds to me like soft music; it's the sort of name to make one dream of fanciful things." Lily smiled. "It's my grandmother's name. Coincidence, maybe, but she grew the most beautiful lilies."
lilynoun/ˈlɪli/
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Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
- The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.
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Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesThe flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.
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The end of a compass needle that should point north, traditionally often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
- But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west.
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card-gamesgamesA royal spade in auction bridge.
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cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe thirtieth Lenormand card, representing calmness and maturity.
lilyadj/ˈlɪli/
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derogatoryslangWhite (as a racial epithet).
- "Can't you see I'm trying to save your lily ass?" "I don't want to be saved," Tess moaned as he hauled her up and into his lap with one beefy hand.
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。