narcissus

[nɑr's?s?s]

TEM8暢通詞匯花

復數:?narcissi;?narcissus;

narcissus 水仙，水仙花

詞源未知，一種觀點是認為來自古希臘美少年Narcissus，死后化作水仙花，或因別人在他溺水的地方發現了水仙花而得名，或來自希臘語narke,麻木，失去知覺，詞源同narcotic,因水仙花鱗莖的毒性液體可使人麻木而得名。

narcissus: narcissus: [16] The plant-name narcissus goes back via Latin to Greek narkissos. Writers of ancient times such as Pliny and Plutarch connected it with Greek nárkē ‘numbness’ (source of English narcotic), a tempting inference given the plant’s sedative effect, but in fact it probably came from an unknown pre- Greek Aegean language. In Greek mythology the name passed to a vain youth who was punished by the gods for spurning the love of Echo.

They made him fall in love with the reflection of his beautiful features in a pool. He died gazing at his own image and was changed into a narcissus plant. In the 19th century his story inspired the word narcissism. At first it was just a general term for excessive self-admiration and self-centredness, but in the 1890s (probably at the hands of the sexologist Havelock Ellis) it became a technical term for a specific personality disorder marked by those traits.
narcissus (n.): type of bulbous flowering plant, 1540s, from Latin narcissus, from Greek narkissos, a plant name, not the modern narcissus, possibly a type of iris or lily, perhaps from a pre-Greek Aegean word, but associated with Greek narke "numbness" (see narcotic) because of the sedative effect of the alkaloids in the plant.

1. The myth of Narcissus is described in Ovid's work.: 有關那喀索斯的神話故事在奧維德的作品中有過描述。

3. Now I still do not know what a blooming Narcissus looks like.: 知道現在我也不知道一朵盛開的水仙花是什么樣子的.

4. The narcissus is becoming more and more lively under mom's careful attendance.: 水仙花在媽媽的精心調養下越發水靈靈的了.