(noun.) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts.
(noun.) a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms.
(noun.) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity.
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双语例句
You can no more do without it, Mr. Fairlie, than if you were a flower. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Besides, is it not a shame, that the genius of Adrian should fade from the earth like a flower in an untrod mountain-path, fruitless? 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
It will be a very fine object from many parts of the park, and the flower-garden will slope down just before it, and be exceedingly pretty. 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
So cold, so fresh, so sea-clear her face was, it was like kissing a flower that grows near the surf. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
And besides, look at elder-flowers and bluebells--they are a sign that pure creation takes place--even the butterfly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
The influence of the fresh air, and the attraction of some flowers gathered from a grave, soon quieted the child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I find there are two flowers where I thought there was only one. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I am pleased you like flowers, observed the Rector, looking at the joyous figure before him, which was bathed in sunshine; 'tis an innocent pleasure. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
The hard, bitter feeling was getting pretty bad, when the maid brought in a box of flowers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
They lighted up Rebecca's figure to admiration, as she sat on a sofa covered with a pattern of gaudy flowers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
But there existed as yet no grass, no small flowering plants, no turf nor greensward. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Changed habits produce an inherited effect as in the period of the flowering of plants when transported from one climate to another. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Those who did that are the last flowering of what their education has produced. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
It doesn't allow any possibility of flowering. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
More than half of the flowering plants are native, and the species of the different isla nds show wonderful differences. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Every cover was taken off, and the apartment blazed forth in yellow silk damask and a brilliantly-flowered carpet. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Monsieur Isidor disappeared into his master's adjacent bedroom, bearing off the flowered dressing-gown. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
A few forget-me-nots flowered by the water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
On the walls hung two maps; in the windows flowered a few hardy plants; in short, here was a miniature classe--complete, neat, pleasant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.