2009年3月3日 星期二

Fecund (續:樹木 蕨類 食用 園藝 單字大集合)


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–adjective

1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.

2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance. 





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At least as far as the movies go, the fecund late '60s are a gift that keeps on giving. As allusive as its title, Jean-Pierre Melville's all but unknown Army of Shadows, a French resistance saga made—and tepidly received—in 1969, emerges from the mists of time in a new 35mm restoration as a career-[capping] epic tragedy.





。桂冠詩人

。花朵

。葉綠素

Hemlock



。樹木

snag

Edward Norton in the role(s) of identical twins, had [hit] a buzz or release snag. 斷枝,剪枝

bough

The blossom came but the fruit withered and died on the bough. 大樹枝

acorn

It was no more than a piece of youthful bravado, but it was one of those acorns from which great oaks are destined to grow. Even then I went so far as to examine the family treem and prune it tojust the living members. 橡子,橡實

hemlock 

cedar

ficus

Is that my ficus? 熱帶榕屬植物

spruce

You are looking spruce. 雲杉

White fir, Douglas fir, silver tip spruce.

sequoias

I bet you told her all your trees wewe sequoias. (產於美國加州的) 紅杉

mahogany

It wasn't the biggest yacht in the world, but it had a fireplace in the library, and the bar was panelled in bleached mahogany. 桃花心木,紅木

coniferous 

turpentine

Go and buy me a turpentine.

sapling 

"Your saplings are taller than me"

burgeon

Let the Right One In follows the [burgeoning] relationship between Oskar,

poon

I mean, who here doesn’t want the heir apparent to Leonardo DiCaprio and, subsequently, and additionally, DiCaprio’s [poon] tractor beam, to succeed in this business?  (印度產) 胡桐樹

You set things up so you can play a little golf, you get a little poon, you smoke some good grass... and that's what life's about.

woodbine

All I had was a packet of woodbines. (開淡黃色花的) 一種忍冬屬植物,五葉地錦

deciduous

Name me three deciduous trees indigenous to the Northwest. 脫落性的,落葉性的

waddle

I will arise and go now, and tgo to Innisfree. A small cabin build there, of [clay] and [wattles] made. 枝條,籬笆條

poplar

I don't think we're supposed to get within, what, 10 feet... Property line's the poplar. 楊屬樹木,白楊

ebony

shillalah

When one went to school, the first thing one heard were the days of your glory, Truscott. Oh, dear, one day, apparently, you [debagged] the [chaplain], and hit the local [constable] over the head with an ebony shillelagh. 黑檀,烏木/(愛爾蘭) 橡樹棍





。蕨類

fern 

I found a piece of osmunda in Colbert's car. On the brake pedal. Osmunda. A fern root. 蕨類植物、羊齒植物

Beckett, what is that? That's a fern. That's right, this is a fern. What's that? That's a cactus. That's a cactus, that's right. And what is the plural of cactus, huh? Cacti.

Earth between my toes and a flower in my hair, that's what I was wearing when we lay among the ferns.

bracken

I thought I heard something, like someone running through the bracken. Another poaching ruffian! Come on!【植】歐洲蕨,蕨叢

spore


At the beginning of the film, as the alien [spores] rain down on earth, you see them presumably landing on the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco,

[Spores] rain forth, unseen, from outer space,

epiphyte  

Well, I'm partial to any of the epiphytics. 附生植物

tendril

even though special effects involving the pods and their [hairy] tendrils are brilliantly unsettling, 卷鬚、蔓

Neglected in poverty, they survive, black and white [entwined], in tough tendrils of friendship — which are tested when one of their group dies in a [roughhousing] accident.

moss

I spent a year with those moos.

fuchsia

Suddenly the lights are stripped of their garish [fuchsia] and purple gels, leaving the [scruffy] set, with its [mural] of the Titanic going under, washed in white light. 倒掛金鐘屬植物

catkin

Now, sometimes catkins are called lamb's tails. Don't you think they look rather like them? So lovely and tiny. 葇荑花序

bacillus

Dr. Noah's bacillus? Now, Jimmy, even you wouldn't release [germ] warfare.【微】芽孢桿菌

lemur

Bill, I can smell him on you. Benway marks out all those whom he has met like a lemur, pissing on a liana vine to mark his territory. You're a marked man, Bill. 藤本植物

brier

They were nearly home when a Maxim gun opened fire. Barnet's body landed on this wire that was as thick as briers. 野薔薇,荊棘,歐石南

bramble

Oh, please help. I'm stuck in the brambles! Tuck! 懸鉤子屬植物,有刺灌木,刺藤

creeper

Given a choice between the lives of his companions and the lives of Earth's last surviving firs and pines, oaks and elms, and creepers and cantaloupes, he decides for the growing things. 匍匐植物





。食用

。園藝 

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