词族 · wallflower
词形变化
中文词源
wallflower 桂竹香，壁花
比喻用法。
英语词源
- wallflower (n.)
- 1570s, type of flowering plant cultivated in gardens, native to southern Europe, where it grows on old walls and in rocky places, from wall (n.) + flower (n.). Colloquial sense of "woman who sits by the wall at parties, often for want of a partner" is first recorded 1820.
权威例句
- 1. I was something of a wallflower; I was terribly shy.
- 我算是朵墙花，因为我特别害羞。
- 2. He had left his diaries, known as " Wallflower ", when he left MI 5.
- 他离开军情5局时留下了自己的日记, 大家都叫它 “ 墙头花 ”.
- 3. Step forward to dance, Mary, don't be such a wallflower.
- 走出来跳舞, 玛丽, 不要当壁花.
- 4. Step forward to dance, Mary, don't be a wallflower.
- 走出来跳舞, 玛丽, 不要当“壁”花.
- 5. Don't be such a wallflower - get up and dance with me.
- 壁花. 指舞会中没有人邀舞,而枯坐一旁的人(尤指女生)