narcissus
[nɑr's?s?s]
- n. 水仙
花暢通詞匯TEM8
詞態變化
復數:?narcissi;?narcissus;
中文詞源
narcissus 水仙，水仙花
詞源未知，一種觀點是認為來自古希臘美少年Narcissus， 后化作水仙花，或因別人在他溺水的地方發現了水仙花而得名，或來自希臘語narke,麻木，失去知覺，詞源同narcotic,因水仙花鱗莖的毒性液體可使人麻木而得名。
英文詞源
- narcissus
- narcissus: [16] The plant-name narcissus goes back via Latin to Greek narkissos. Writers of ancient times such as Pliny and Plutarch connected it with Greek nárkē ‘numbness’ (source of English narcotic), a tempting inference given the plant’s sedative effect, but in fact it probably came from an unknown pre- Greek Aegean language. In Greek mythology the name passed to a vain youth who was punished by the gods for spurning the love of Echo.
They made him fall in love with the reflection of his beautiful features in a pool. He died gazing at his own image and was changed into a narcissus plant. In the 19th century his story inspired the word narcissism. At first it was just a general term for excessive self-admiration and self-centredness, but in the 1890s (probably at the hands of the sexologist Havelock Ellis) it became a technical term for a specific personality disorder marked by those traits. - narcissus (n.)
- type of bulbous flowering plant, 1540s, from Latin narcissus, from Greek narkissos, a plant name, not the modern narcissus, possibly a type of iris or lily, perhaps from a pre-Greek Aegean word, but associated with Greek narke "numbness" (see narcotic) because of the sedative effect of the alkaloids in the plant.
雙語例句
- 1. The myth of Narcissus is described in Ovid's work.
- 有關那喀索斯的神話故事在奧維德的作品中有過描述。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.
- 黃水仙是水仙屬植物.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Now I still do not know what a blooming Narcissus looks like.
- 知道現在我也不知道一朵盛開的水仙花是什么樣子的.
來自互聯網
- 4. The narcissus is becoming more and more lively under mom's careful attendance.
- 水仙花在媽媽的精心調養下越發水靈靈的了.
來自互聯網
- 5. She was like a narcissus trembling in the wind.
- 她像一株在風中搖動的水仙.
來自互聯網