"Dianthus Caryophyllus," commonly also called "pink," herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to southern Europe and abundant in Normandy, 1530s, of uncertain origin. The early forms are confused; perhaps (on evidence of early spellings) it is a corruption of coronation, from the flower's being used in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.
Or it might be called for its pinkness and derive from Middle French carnation "person's color or complexion" (15c.), which probably is from Italian dialectal carnagione "flesh color," from Late Latin carnationem (nominative carnatio) "fleshiness," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage). This carnation had been borrowed separately into English as "color of human flesh" (1530s) and as an adjective meaning "flesh-colored" (1560s; the earliest use of the word in English was to mean "the incarnation of Christ," mid-14c.). OED points out that not all the flowers are this color.
雙語例句
1. He was wearing a carnation in his buttonhole.
他在扣眼里插了一朵康乃馨。
來自《權威詞典》
2. He was wearing a carnation in his lapel.
他的翻領里別著一枝康乃馨.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. He had a white carnation in his buttonhole.
他在紐扣孔上佩了朵白色康乃馨.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
她們面頰的美麗的淡紅色象七重天里的陽光始終輝煌燦爛.
來自辭典例句
5. Miss Anna Jarvis's mother's favorite flower was the white carnation.