喜欢■10种鲜花的英文名含义,你最喜欢哪种?( 三 )


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Passing into English via Dutch or German in the late 1500s, tulip actually comes from the Turkishtülbent, based on the Persian dulband: "turban".
16世纪晚期,tulip(郁金香)从荷兰语或德语中传入英语,这个单词实际上源自于Turkishtülbent,后者来自于波斯语dulband,指“穆斯林的头巾”。
 喜欢■10种鲜花的英文名含义,你最喜欢哪种?
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The flower, to its ancient namers, resembled the male headwear worn throughout the Middle East, India, and parts of Africa.
按照郁金香古代名字的意思,这种花好像中东、印度以及非洲部分地区男性的头饰。
紫罗兰 【 喜欢■10种鲜花的英文名含义,你最喜欢哪种?】Violet
 喜欢■10种鲜花的英文名含义,你最喜欢哪种?
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Before we had the color violet, recorded by the late 1300s, we had the flower violet, emerging some decades earlier in the same century.
据记载,在14世纪末期人们用violet表示紫罗兰色,而在此前几十年,violet就已经用来指代紫罗兰花了。
Violet grows out of the French violete or violette, a diminutive of viole, in turn the Latin viola, its name for this distinctively purple flower.
Violet来自于法语中的 violete或violette,它们是viole的指小词,而viole来自于拉丁语单词 viola,也就是拉丁语中对这种独特的紫色花朵的称呼。
 喜欢■10种鲜花的英文名含义,你最喜欢哪种?
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This viola has no etymological relationship to the instrument. Some scholars suspect Latin got viola from the Greek name for the plant, ion.
拉丁文viola(英语中有中提琴的意思)和中提琴毫无关系。一些学者认为,它来自于希腊语中对紫罗兰的称呼,ion。
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