Myrtle
['mɜːt(ə)l]
解释:
(noun.) widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers.
(noun.) any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus.
编辑:纽曼--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
手打:罗纳德
解释:
n. an evergreen shrub with beautiful and fragrant leaves.—n. Myr′tle-wax wax from the candle-berry.
编辑:苏珊娜
娱乐性解释：
To see myrtle in foliage and bloom in your dream, denotes that your desires will be gratified, and pleasures will possess you. For a young woman to dream of wearing a sprig of myrtle, foretells to her an early marriage with a well-to do and intelligent man. To see it withered, denotes that she will miss happiness through careless conduct.
校对:梅勒妮
例句:
- Maurice, you ought to give me your crown, so that myrtle and olive inspire me with the breath of the god. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Meg's had roses and heliotrope, myrtle, and a little orange tree in it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Take this myrtle, said Helena, tossing him a twig across the table, and sing to it in the Greek fashion. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Noting, I gif you my honour, boate some cabage and some myrtle, and great mosh tornep tops, and soam leettil pot of de sweet pea. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Roses for love, myrtle for joy, violets for modesty. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- A drive of half a mile brought us to The Myrtles--a large, dark house standing back from the road in its own grounds. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- She is living at present at The Myrtles, Beckenham. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
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