Wormwood
['wɜːmwʊd] or ['wɝmwʊd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium.
手打:利蒂希娅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
(n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
弗兰克編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the bitter plant Artemisia absinthium: bitterness.
汉弗莱手打
例句/造句/用法:
- This very morning the two set out for Wormwood Wells [a noted watering-place], and will stay there some weeks. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That's the wormwood, Robert Jordan told him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In this, the real absinthe, there is wormwood. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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