gorse: [OE] Gorse appears to mean etymologically ‘prickly bush’. It has been traced back to an Indo-European source *ghrzddenoting ‘roughness’ or ‘prickliness’, which also produced German gerste ‘barley’. Of the plant’s other names, furze [OE] is of unknown origin, while whin [11] was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian language.
gorse (n.)
Old English gors "gorse, furze," from Proto-Germanic *gorst- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German gersta, Middle Dutch gherste, Dutch gerst, German gerste "barley"), from PIE *ghers- "to bristle" (source also of Latin hordeum "barley;" see horror).
双语例句
1. Her horse shied violently at a gorse bush.
金雀花丛把她的马惊得猛然后退.
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2. Thoroughly drenched and chilled , the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse.
两个冒险家浑身湿漉漉地打着寒噤,回到原先金雀花丛那里.
来自辞典例句
3. People say that when gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion.
人们说,要是荆豆过了花期, 那接吻也就不合时尚了.
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英英释意
1. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
实用场景例句
Thoroughly drenched and chilled , the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse.
两个冒险家浑身湿漉漉地打着寒噤,回到原先金雀花丛那里.
辞典例句
Her horse shied violently at a gorse bush.
金雀花丛把她的马惊得猛然后退.
《简明英汉词典》
People say that when gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion.
