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A narcissus is a spring flower, usually white or yellow, with a little cup or trumpet in the middle of the . belong to this group — though actually, in shops and gardens people often say "" for the big yellow trumpet ones and "narcissus" for the smaller, sweeter white ones, even though a gardener would tell you a is a kind of narcissus.
A narcissus is a spring flower, usually white or yellownarcissus是一種春天開的花,通常是白色或黃色 with a little cup or trumpet in the middle of the petals花瓣中間有一個小杯狀或喇叭狀的構造 Daffodils belong to this groupdaffodil也屬於這一類 though actually, in shops and gardens people often say "daffodil" for the big yellow trumpet ones不過在花店和花園裡,大家常把大朵黃色喇叭形的叫做daffodil and "narcissus" for the smaller, sweeter white ones把比較小、香氣比較甜的白色的叫做narcissus even though a gardener would tell you a daffodil is a kind of narcissus儘管園藝專家會告訴你,daffodil其實是narcissus的一種
The plant grows from a bulb. In Taiwan you will know it well around the new year, when bowls of it are grown indoors for the smell.
The plant grows from a bulb這種植物是從球根長出來的 In Taiwan you will know it well around the new year在台灣,你在過年前後會很熟悉這種花 when bowls of it are grown indoors for the smell那時候大家會在室內水養一盆,聞它的香氣
The name is the same as Narcissus, the boy in the Greek story; people later used his name for the flower. The flower is usually small n; the boy in the story is Narcissus with a capital letter.
The name is the same as Narcissus, the boy in the Greek story這個名字跟希臘故事裡的男孩Narcissus(納西瑟斯)是同一個名字 people later used his name for the flower後來的人就用他的名字來稱呼這種花 The flower is usually small n這種花的寫法通常是小寫n開頭 the boy in the story is Narcissus with a capital letter故事裡的那個男孩則是大寫N開頭的Narcissus
組成Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Greek nárkissos. What came before that is not sure: it may be an older pre-Greek word, or it may be related to Greek nárkē, a kind of numbness (the flower has a heavy smell).
同家族的字
- narcissistbuilt from Narcissus, the boy in the Greek story who loved his own face in the water
- narcissisticsame story-name, used as an adjective
原始詞典資料3 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。
Narcissusname/nɑː(r)ˈsɪsəs/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.
- At the beginning of his narrative, Ishmael mentions Narcissus, the legendary character who plunged into the water and was drowned in the attempt to grasp his own essence (p. 14). Narcissus was unwilling to understand the relationship between himself and “the ungraspable phantom of life” in gradualistic terms and sought to bring that relationship to immediate closure, thus annihilating himself.
- We may now affirm that Plato's cave is inhabited by Narcissus. He already knows, but the knowledge he possesses is still a bit confused, obscure (this knowledge is situated in the caves of the memory, a dark space much like Narcissus’s place).
narcissusnoun/nɑɹˈsɪsəs/
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Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
- The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]
- At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
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A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus
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。