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A tulip is a spring flower shaped like a cup: six smooth curving up and inward on one straight stem, usually one flower per stem, and the leaves are long and grey-green. They come in almost every colour — red, yellow, pink, white, deep purple that looks nearly black — and they grow from a bulb, a fat brown thing like a small onion that you plant in autumn and forget about until spring.
A tulip is a spring flower shaped like a cup鬱金香是一種春天的花，形狀像杯子: six smooth petals curving up and inward on one straight stem一根直挺的莖上，六片光滑的花瓣往上、往內彎, usually one flower per stem通常一根莖開一朵花, and the leaves are long and grey-green葉子細長，呈灰綠色. They come in almost every colour幾乎每種顏色都有: red, yellow, pink, white, deep purple that looks nearly black紅、黃、粉紅、白，還有深到近乎黑的紫色, and they grow from a bulb而且是從球根長出來的, a fat brown thing like a small onion that you plant in autumn and forget about until spring一種像小洋蔥的胖胖棕色球根，秋天種下去、放到春天就不用管它了
Tulips mean Holland to most people, and the Dutch fields of striped colour in April are a famous sight. There is a history behind that: in the 1630s tulip bulbs in Holland were for the price of a house, and then the price collapsed. English speakers still say tulip mania or tulip bubble when they talk about people paying mad money for something because everyone else is — you will meet this in business news about crypto or shares, far away from any garden.
Tulips mean Holland to most people對大多數人來說，鬱金香就代表荷蘭, and the Dutch fields of striped colour in April are a famous sight四月荷蘭那一片片彩色條紋般的花田是有名的景象. There is a history behind that這背後有一段歷史: in the 1630s tulip bulbs in Holland were traded for the price of a house1630年代，荷蘭的鬱金香球根曾經被拿去換一整棟房子的價錢, and then the price collapsed後來價格崩盤. English speakers still say tulip mania or tulip bubble英語使用者現在還是會說tulip mania或tulip bubble, when they talk about people paying mad money for something because everyone else is用來說有人只因為大家都在買，就花瘋狂的錢搶著買某樣東西, you will meet this in business news about crypto or shares這種說法會出現在講加密貨幣或股票的財經新聞裡, far away from any garden跟花園一點關係都沒有
Two small things about the word itself. Cut tulips keep growing in the vase and bend towards the light, so a bunch that was straight yesterday is leaning today; people find this either charming or . And tulip is used for cup-shaped things by likeness — a tulip glass for beer, tulip-shaped lamps.
Two small things about the word itself關於這個字本身，還有兩件小事. Cut tulips keep growing in the vase and bend towards the light剪下來插在花瓶裡的鬱金香還會繼續生長，並朝光的方向彎, so a bunch that was straight yesterday is leaning today所以昨天還直挺挺的一束花，今天就歪了, people find this either charming or annoying有人覺得這樣很有味道，也有人覺得很煩. And tulip is used for cup-shaped things by likeness另外，因為外型相似，tulip也用來形容杯狀的東西: a tulip glass for beer, tulip-shaped lamps像啤酒用的鬱金香杯、鬱金香造型的燈
組成From French tulipe, from Turkish tülbent, from Persian dulband, meaning a turban — someone thought the flower looked like the wound cloth on a man's head. Note that it came to Europe through Turkey, not from Holland at all.
同家族的字
- turbanThe very same Persian word dulband, arriving in English by a different road. Tulip and turban are the same word twice.
原始詞典資料5 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。
TULIPnoun
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lifestylereligionAcronym for the Five Points of Calvinist doctrine: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints
Tulipname詞源 1
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A surname.
Tulipname詞源 2
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A female given name from English, of rare usage.
- Tiny Tim, who trilled his way to fame with his high‐pitched rendition of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” has named his daughter, born last Monday, Tulip Victoria Khaury.
- Neil and Clare are extremely happy to announce the safe arrival of their daughter Evangeline Tulip born Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at 10.04am, weighing 8lb. 2oz.
tulipnoun/ˈtulɪp/
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A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
- "The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
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The flower of this plant.
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。