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Lesson 68 The Hyacinth
第68課 風(fēng)信子
The wild hyacinth is one of the most beautiful of the flowers of spring-time, and it is also one of the most abundant . In April, May, and June, we may find its flowers in many parts of the woods in such numbers that at a distance they look like wreaths of blue smoke resting upon the ground.
野生風(fēng)信子是春天最為美麗、數(shù)量最為眾多的花朵之一。到了四月、五月、六月, 經(jīng)常可以在樹林中看到大片大片的風(fēng)信子。從遠(yuǎn)處望去, 它們就如同一個(gè)個(gè)藍(lán)色煙圈那樣平鋪在地面之上。
The flowers have a rich, sweet perfume , and we can often tell by the scent alone that we are coming near a bed of hyacinths.
風(fēng)信子散發(fā)著濃郁的甜美香氣, 聞到這種香氣, 就能夠知道附近肯定有一片風(fēng)信子花床。
Let us dig up a wild hyacinth, bulb, roots, and all, so that we may have the entire plant to examine. The roots are slender and thread-like. They grow out of a bulb about an inch in thickness. This bulb, like the bulb of the onion, is made of many thick and fleshy leaves.
讓我們連同球莖和根挖起一株完整的野生風(fēng)信子, 仔細(xì)觀察這種植物。它的須根非常纖細(xì), 生長(zhǎng)在一個(gè)厚度約為一英寸的球莖之上。這個(gè)球莖跟洋蔥的一樣, 由很多肥厚、多汁的葉片組成。
Several narrow leaves grow up from the bulb to the height of about a foot. From the centre of the bulb rises the flower-stem, which carries near its top from six to twelve small blue flowers. Sometimes, but not often, we find the wild hyacinth bearing white flowers, and sometimes purple flowers.
球莖上長(zhǎng)出幾片高度約為一英尺的狹窄葉子。花葶從球莖的中間向上生長(zhǎng), 在其靠近頂部的位置上則開有6–12朵藍(lán)色小花。有時(shí)候也能看到盛開白色與紫色花朵的風(fēng)信子, 但不常見。
Each flower looks like a little bell, and for this reason the children in England often call the wild hyacinth the "blue-bell. "But in Scotland and some other places the name "blue-bell" is given to the hare-bell, a very different plant.
每一個(gè)花朵看起來(lái)都像一個(gè)小鈴鐺, 為此, 英格蘭的孩子們經(jīng)常把野生的風(fēng)信子稱作“藍(lán)鈴花”。然而, 在蘇格蘭及其他一些地方, “藍(lán)鈴花”指的是另外一種完全不同的植物——圓葉風(fēng)鈴。
Each hyacinth flower has a little stalk of its own, by which it hangs from the main stem. The outside of the flower consists of six separate deep-blue leaves or petals, which turn back at their tips. Looking inside the bell formed by these blue leaves, we find six dust-spikes or stamens, one growing upon each petal.
風(fēng)信子的每一花朵都有一枝連接莖干的小花梗。花朵的外部由六片分開的深藍(lán)色花瓣組成, 在靠近頂部的位置向下彎曲。仔細(xì)觀察這些藍(lán)色葉片構(gòu)成的“鈴鐺”內(nèi)部, 就會(huì)看到六個(gè)花瓣上分別長(zhǎng)有一個(gè)粉穗或雄蕊。
