Virginia creepers, asters, and other colonial exotica to a delighted English gentry.
弗吉尼亚匍匐植物、紫菀,以及其他来自殖民地的奇花异草,令他们欣喜万分,他自己也挣了不少钱。
向往的乡村生活
I was looking for a new Virginia creeper to plant by the trellis of my cottage.
我正在寻找一种新的弗吉尼亚爬山虎,种在我小屋的格子旁边。
夏
The first crisp maple-leaves began to spin across Miss Hatchard's lawn, and the Virginia creeper on the Memorial splashed the white porch with scarlet.
第一片酥脆的枫叶开始在哈查德小姐的草坪上旋转,纪念碑上的弗吉尼亚爬山虎在白色的门廊上溅起了猩红。
夏
Miles, and had even, during the memorable trip to Nettleton, imagined herself married to a man who had such a straight nose and such a beautiful way of speaking, and who lived in a brown-stone rectory covered with Virginia creeper.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering plant in the grape family, Vitaceae. It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah, and south to eastern Mexico and Guatemala.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
vine
英英词典
virginia creeper n.
common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
synonymous: American ivy, woodbine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia