blossom

参见：Blossom

英语

词源

Apple blossoms
苹果花

源自中古英语 blosme，源自古英语 blostm、blostma，源自原始日耳曼语 *blōsmaz（对比西弗里斯兰语 blossem、荷兰语 bloesem），*blōstaz（对比德语 Blust）的加长形式，源自原始印欧语 *bʰleh₃-s- (“花”)，源自*bʰleh₃- (“绽，盛开”)。同源词有阿尔巴尼亚语 bleron (“绽放，繁盛”)、拉丁语 flōs (“花”)、Flōra (“植物之神”)。详见blow的词源4。

发音

(标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈblɒ.səm/
(通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈblɑ.səm/
（通用美式）音频： (档案)
（澳洲）音频： (档案)
韵部：-ɒsəm, -ɑsəm
断字：blos‧som

名词

blossom (可数和不可数，复数 blossoms)

花（尤指果树结果前盛开的花）；(集合名词) （这种花的）花簇
The blossom has come early this year.
今年开花早。
- Template:RQ:Geneva Bible
- 1711年3月16日, The Spectator, 第 I 卷, 第 16 期, London: Printed for S[amuel] Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, →OCLC，第 89 页:
  Foppiſh and fantaſtick Ornaments are only Indications of Vice, not criminal in themſelves. Extinguiſh Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage. The Bloſſoms will fall of themſelves, when the Root that nouriſhes them is deſtroyed.
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- Template:RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein
开花期
The orchard is in blossom.
果园迎来了开花期。
- Template:RQ:Galsworthy Saint's Progress
(比喻义) 欣欣向荣的景象
- c. 1619–1622, Philip Massinger, “A Very Woman”, 出自 Three New Playes: viz. The Bashful Lover, Guardian, Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-house in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 出版于 1655, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii; 再版为 W[illiam] Gifford 编, The Plays of Philip Massinger, in Four Volumes. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, 第 IV 卷, London: Printed for G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol [et al.] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1805, →OCLC，第 317 页:
  This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, / When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, / Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness; / [...] long did I love this lady, / Long was my travail, long my trade to win her; / With all the duty of my soul, I served her.
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混杂有栗色或棕色的白色（指马的毛色）
- 1834–1847, Robert Southey, “A Feeble Attempt to Describe the Physical and Moral Qualities of Nobs”, 出自 John Wood Warter 编, The Doctor, &c., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, →OCLC; new版, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, →OCLC，第 358 页，第 2 列:
  For colour he [Nobs, a horse] was neither black-bay, brown-bay, dapple-bay, black-grey, iron-grey, sad-grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, dun, mouse-dun, flea-backed, flea-bitten, rount, blossom, roan, pye-bald, rubican, sorrel, cow-coloured sorrel, bright sorrel, burnt sorrel, starling-colour, tyger-colour, wolf-colour, deer-colour, cream-colour, white, grey, or black. Neither was he green, like the horse which the Emperor [Septimus] Severus took from the Parthians, [...]
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其他形式

blasom (牙买加英语)

衍生词汇

动词

blossom (第三人称单数简单现在时 blossoms，现在分词 blossoming，一般过去时及过去分词 blossomed)

(不及物) 盛开，绽放
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- 1851年6月22日, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, 编者H. G. O. Blake, Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 26 Paternoster Square E.C., 出版于 1884，第 210 页:
  The Utricularia vulgaris or bladder-wort, a yellow pea-like flower, has blossomed in stagnant pools.
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(不及物) 欣欣向荣
- Template:RQ:Alcott Little Women
- 1961年1月30日, Rico Lebrun, “New Haven · Capri · Rome (1958–1960) [To David Lebrun from Los Angeles, January 30, 1961]”, 出自 In the Meridian of the Heart: Selected Letters of Rico Lebrun, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, Publisher, 出版于 2000, →ISBN，第 66 页:
  Since I came back from Pomona I have done many drawings to illustrate the Inferno of Dante [Alighieri] and I find my old Italian love blossoming all over again for this greatest of all master poets, bar none.
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近义词

(绽放)： bloom, come into bloom, come into blossom, flower
(欣欣向荣)： bloom、flourish、grow、prosper、thrive

延伸阅读

blossom在英语维基百科上的资料。维基百科 ^en

中古英语

名词

blossom

blosme的另一种写法