periwinkle
英 ['per?w??k(?)l]
美['p?r?w??kl]
- n. 小長春花；玉黍螺
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?periwinkles;
中文詞源
periwinkle 蔓長春花
peri-,在周圍，-win,纏繞，詞源同wind,vine.后用于指蔓長春花，因其纏繞的藤蔓而得名。
periwinkle 蛾螺，海蝸牛來自古英語pinewincle,來自拉丁語pina,海貝，可能來自PIE*peie,脂肪，肥肉，詞源同 fat,pine.wincel,螺，詞源同wind,wine.拼寫受periwinkle 影響俗化。
英文詞源
- periwinkle (n.1)
- evergreen plant, c. 1500, diminutive of parvink (12c.), from Old English perwince, from Late Latin pervinca "periwinkle" (4c.), from Latin, perhaps from pervincire "to entwine, bind," from per- "thoroughly" (see per) + vincire "to bind, fetter" (see wind (v.1)).
- periwinkle (n.2)
- kind of sea snail, 1520s, apparently an alteration of Old English pinewincle (probably by influence of Middle English parvink; see periwinkle (n.1)); from Old English pine-, which probably is from Latin pina "mussel," from Greek pine. The second element is wincel "corner; spiral shell," from Proto-Germanic *winkil-, from PIE root *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)).
雙語例句
- 1. Light permeates the sheer petals of a Madagascar periwinkle.
- 燈光透過了一朵馬達(dá)加斯加長春花的纖薄的花瓣.
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