blossom

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英語

詞源

Apple blossoms
蘋果花

源自中古英語 blosme，源自古英語 blostm、blostma，源自原始日耳曼語 *blōsmaz（對比西弗里斯蘭語 blossem、荷蘭語 bloesem），*blōstaz（對比德語 Blust）的加長形式，源自原始印歐語 *bʰleh₃-s- (「花」)，源自*bʰleh₃- (「綻，盛開」)。同源詞有阿爾巴尼亞語 bleron (「綻放，繁盛」)、拉丁語 flōs (「花」)、Flōra (「植物之神」)。詳見blow的詞源4。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈblɒ.səm/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈblɑ.səm/

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• 韻部：-ɒsəm, -ɑsəm
• 斷字：blos‧som

名詞

blossom (可數 和 不可數，複數 blossoms)

1. 花 （尤指果樹結果前盛開的花）；(集合名詞) （這種花的）花簇

   The blossom has come early this year.

   今年開花早。

   • Template:RQ:Geneva Bible
   • 1711 3月 16, The Spectator, 卷 I, 期 16, 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，頁號 89:

     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
2. 開花期

   The orchard is in blossom.

   果園迎來了開花期。

   • Template:RQ:Galsworthy Saint's Progress
3. (比喻義) 欣欣向榮的景象
   • 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, 出版於 1655, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii; 再版為 W[illiam] Gifford 編, The Plays of Philip Massinger, in Four Volumes. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, 卷 IV, London: Printed for G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol [et al.] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1805, →OCLC，頁號 317:

     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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4. 混雜有栗色或棕色的白色 （指馬的毛色）
   • 1834–1847, Robert Southey, 「A Feeble Attempt to Describe the Physical and Moral Qualities of Nobs」, 出自 John Wood Warter 編, The Doctor, &c., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, →OCLC; new版, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, →OCLC，頁號 358，列號 2:

     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 (牙買加英語)

衍生詞彙

• apple blossom
• blossomed
• blossom-end rot
• blossomest
• blossom-faced
• blossom-headed
• blossoming
• blossomless
• blossom-nosed
• blossom out
• blossom-rock
• blossomry
• blossomy
• blue blossom
• cherry blossom
• cherry blossom front
• crash blossom
• emblossom, imblossom
• grog-blossom
• in blossom
• may-blossom
• May blossom
• orange blossom
• out-blossom
• out-blossoming
• peach blossom
• pease-blossom
• plum blossom
• pricot blossom
• rape blossom
• reblossom
• rum-blossom
• snow-blossom
• sperm blossom
• sperm-blossom

 

動詞

blossom (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 blossoms，現在分詞 blossoming，一般過去時及過去分詞 blossomed)

1. (不及物) 盛開，綻放
   • Template:RQ:Geneva Bible
   • 1851 6月 22, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, 編者H. G. O. Blake, Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 26 Paternoster Square E.C., 出版於 1884，頁號 210:

     The Utricularia vulgaris or bladder-wort, a yellow pea-like flower, has blossomed in stagnant pools.

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2. (不及物) 欣欣向榮
   • Template:RQ:Alcott Little Women
   • 1961 1月 30, 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, 出版於 2000, →ISBN，頁號 66:

     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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近義詞

• (綻放)： bloom, come into bloom, come into blossom, flower
• (欣欣向榮)： bloom、flourish、grow、prosper、thrive

延伸閱讀

• blossom在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en

中古英語

名詞

blossom

1. blosme的另一種寫法