dandelion

• n. 蒲公英

來自法語dent de lion, 即lion’s tooth. 因薄公英的葉子形如獅子的牙齒而得名。

dandelion

dandelion: [13] Dandelion means literally ‘lion’s tooth’. It was borrowed from French dent-de-lion, which itself was a translation of medieval Latin dēns leōnis. It was presumably so called from the toothlike points of its leaves (although some have speculated that the name comes from the long taproot). The plant has a variety of local dialectal names, many of them (clock, farmer’s clocks, schoolboy’s clock, telltime, time flower) reflecting the traditional practice of telling the time by blowing off all the plant’s tufted seeds (the number of puffs needed indicates the hour). Piss-a-bed, like its French counterpart pissenlit, betrays the plant’s diuretic properties.
=> dentist, lion

dandelion (n.)

early 15c., earlier dent-de-lioun (late 14c.), from Middle French dent de lion, literally "lion's tooth" (from its toothed leaves), translation of Medieval Latin dens leonis. Other folk names, like tell-time refer to the custom of telling the time by blowing the white seed (the number of puffs required to blow them all off supposedly being the number of the hour), or to the plant's more authentic diuretic qualities, preserved in Middle English piss-a-bed and French pissenlit.

1. The seeds of dandelion were carried to the meadow by the wind.

風把蒲公英的種子吹到草地上.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. While herbalists make dandelion into tincture, the leaves can be eaten raw in salad or steamed with the flowers and eaten like vegetables.

草藥專家把蒲公英製成藥劑, 而它的葉子可以拌入生菜沙拉中生吃或與花一起煮了當蔬菜吃.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The Dandelion Patch is the least developed of the four active vents.

“蒲公英區”在這四個活裂口中是發育最差的一個.

來自辭典例句

4. The wind puffed away the seeds of the dandelion.

風吹散了蒲公英的種子.

來自辭典例句

5. Dandelion flowers can be open palms as we can be together on.

蒲公英花像我們的手掌可張開、可合上.

來自互聯網