时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力文摘 English Digest


英语课

   A Rose By Any Other Name


  Just saying the word “rose” conjures 1 up images of romance, secret admirers, Valentines gifts, and bridal bouquets 3. Romantics imagine soft, red petals 4 and long, graceful 5 stems, but practical gardeners know all about painful, pointy thorns. As the saying goes, every rose has its thorn. But, what we call thorns are actually not thorns at all.
  Thorns
  Thorns, like those found on the Hawthorn 6 tree, are modified branches that project from the stem and branches of a woody plant.
  They are very sharp and quite strong because they are made of the same stuff as the stem of the tree or bush. Thorns are deeply embedded 7 in the woody structure of the plant and can’t be broken off easily. Those nasty points on the stem of the rose are not true thorns: they are what scientists call “prickles.”
  Prickles
  Prickles are smaller than thorns: they are sharp outgrowths of the plant’s outer layers, the skin-like epidermis 8, and the sub-epidermal layer just beneath it. Unlike a thorn, a prickle can be easily broken off the plant because it is really a feature of the outer layers rather than part of the wood, like a thorn.
  Both prickles and thorns protect the plant from predators 9, and, maybe, from lovers looking for a free bouquet 2. But perhaps we call the rose prickles “thorns” because saying “every rose has its prickle” doesn’t seem to do justice to the pain of unrequited love.

1 conjures
用魔术变出( conjure的第三人称单数 ); 祈求,恳求; 变戏法; (变魔术般地) 使…出现
  • The word 'birthday' conjures up images of presents and parties. “生日”这个词使人想起礼物和聚会的情景。
  • The name Sahara conjures up images of a desert of aridity. "撒哈拉"这个名字使人想起干旱的沙漠情景。
2 bouquet
n.花束,酒香
  • This wine has a rich bouquet.这种葡萄酒有浓郁的香气。
  • Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy.她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。
3 bouquets
n.花束( bouquet的名词复数 );(酒的)芳香
  • The welcoming crowd waved their bouquets. 欢迎的群众摇动着花束。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • As the hero stepped off the platform, he was surrounded by several children with bouquets. 当英雄走下讲台时,已被几名手持花束的儿童围住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 petals
n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )
  • white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
  • The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5 graceful
adj.优美的,优雅的;得体的
  • His movements on the parallel bars were very graceful.他的双杠动作可帅了!
  • The ballet dancer is so graceful.芭蕾舞演员的姿态是如此的优美。
6 hawthorn
山楂
  • A cuckoo began calling from a hawthorn tree.一只布谷鸟开始在一株山楂树里咕咕地呼叫。
  • Much of the track had become overgrown with hawthorn.小路上很多地方都长满了山楂树。
7 embedded
a.扎牢的
  • an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术
  • He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。
8 epidermis
n.表皮
  • The external layer of skin is called the epidermis.皮的外层叫表皮。
  • There is a neoplasm originating in his leg's epidermis.他的腿上有个生长在表皮上的肿瘤。
9 predators
n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 );奴役他人者(尤指在财务或性关系方面)
  • birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
  • The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acceptance of portest
air cavity
Armenian blackberries
attend upon someone's leisure
Bandak
barrers
bashaarat
bemporad's formula
Birley
blows your top
calicoan i.
camile
capstone chip
Cavitas pleuralis
cenwulf
chronic thyroiditis
client operating system
cold hemagglutination
completely ground
conduit bender
cowyard flavor
critical value of nutrient
cyberdyne
cybermarriage
Dabuleni
delayed boiling
discretionary benefits
driftmeter
employee's deposits received
fahmarr
ferrodynamic
fitting criterion
flaur
folding windshield
foot-long
frequency-wavelength relation
give something the old college
habituations
have the upper hand of
helocs
heteronida barunae
high sounding
ii corinthianss
industrial contaminant
Joe Blow
Kashkān, Rūd-e
Laperouse Seamount
LEPETIDAE
lie to gage
lopez mateos
low-order position
LSC (least significant character)
LSD system (liquid shutdown system)
Manacapuru
marmalade dropper
meat-eaters
meningoexothelioma
merotropy
mountains-and-waters painting
near as dammit
necrotomy
network bill of lading
nocireceptor
nonlinear function generator
paranoics
philosophi
plus twos
poisoning by narcotics
policy-determining
pooled serum
prereducing
printing finished signal
program termination
Préchac
pseudo-fuzzy logic
pseudologized
Quioucohanock
Quirindi
re-evaluation
recursive transition network
sacks up
Sainton's sign
sarros
secures
sewage-disposal plant
shuts in
Sindae-ri
sludge inhibitor
snecke
speech impedance
step mechanism
sun gears
sweeps up
tetraophthalmus
thunderworms
time-homogeneous process
Toepler
tonames
unbiassing
WC, W.C.
Williamson turn
Zenonic