periwinkle
periwinkle 英 ['perɪwɪŋk(ə)l] 美 ['pɛrɪwɪŋkl]
n. 小长春花；玉黍螺
名词复数:periwinkles
- 请先登录
- n. 小长春花；玉黍螺
-
1. I’m talking about the periwinkle – otherwise known as Vinca minor.
这究竟是怎么回事呢？ 今天我要说的就是与此有关的一种神奇植物，它就是闻名遐迩的“长春花（periwinkle）”，也被称为“小蔓长春花（Vinca minor）”。
-
2. Women look at the same swatch and declare it to be periwinkle blue .
女人看着同一块斯沃琪手表却会把它描述成浅紫光蓝色。
-
3. We hate the mustard color of the bathroom, but never get around to painting it our favorite shade of periwinkle.
我们讨厌浴室的芥末黄色但是却从不会抽空来将之漆成我们最喜欢的玉黍螺色。
- 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.)).
- 请先登录
0 个回复