carnation

• n. [園藝] 康乃馨；肉色；粉紅色
• adj. 肉紅色的

來自coronation的拚寫異化形式，原指用作花環的花。拚寫受詞根carn（肉）影響俗化，實際上大多數該類型花呈粉紅肉，而非肉色。

carnation (n.)

"Dianthus Caryophyllus," commonly also called "pink," herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to southern Europe and abundant in Normandy, 1530s, of uncertain origin. The early forms are confused; perhaps (on evidence of early spellings) it is a corruption of coronation, from the flower's being used in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Or it might be called for its pinkness and derive from Middle French carnation "person's color or complexion" (15c.), which probably is from Italian dialectal carnagione "flesh color," from Late Latin carnationem (nominative carnatio) "fleshiness," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage). This carnation had been borrowed separately into English as "color of human flesh" (1530s) and as an adjective meaning "flesh-colored" (1560s; the earliest use of the word in English was to mean "the incarnation of Christ," mid-14c.). OED points out that not all the flowers are this color.

1. He was wearing a carnation in his buttonhole.

他在扣眼裏插了一朵康乃馨。

來自《權威詞典》

2. He was wearing a carnation in his lapel.

他的翻領裏別著一枝康乃馨.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. He had a white carnation in his buttonhole.

他在紐扣孔上佩了朵白色康乃馨.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.

她們麵頰的美麗的淡紅色象七重天裏的陽光始終輝煌燦爛.

來自辭典例句

5. Miss Anna Jarvis's mother's favorite flower was the white carnation.

安娜·維絲小姐的母親最喜愛的花是白色康乃馨.

來自互聯網