"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.
中文解释
音译“康乃馨”。
实用例句
1. He was wearing a carnation in his buttonhole.
他在扣眼里插了一朵康乃馨。
来自《权威词典》
2. He was wearing a carnation in his lapel.
他的翻领里别着一枝康乃馨.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. He had a white carnation in his buttonhole.
他在纽扣孔上佩了朵白色康乃馨.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
她们面颊的美丽的淡红色象七重天里的阳光始终辉煌灿烂.
来自辞典例句
5. Miss Anna Jarvis's mother's favorite flower was the white carnation.