【英语时差8,16】西辛赫斯特

Sissinghurst One of the most famous gardeners in the world is the garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, created by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson. Their son, Nigel, gave the house and gardens to the National Trust, but he gave his parent’s papers to Indiana University where they are housed in the Lilly Library on the Bloomington Campus. The papers are a wonderful resource for scholars and garden enthusiasts¹. Sissinghurst is a very personal garden, but one which has been widely imitated - especially the compartmental arrangement of garden areas and the magical white garden. Harold designed the plan and his straight lines were a departure from the Gertrude Jekyll style of flower gardening. But Vita’s luxuriant plantings created an overall feeling of abundance and romanticism. Old-fashioned roses, under-planted with hardy² geraniums still perfume the air and delight visitors. Clematis and roses drape together on the antique brick walls. The colors are soft, and the blooms luxuriant and each area of the garden has a different identity - a marriage of Harold’s austere³ design and Vita’s extravagant⁴ plant combinations. The Tower at Sissinghurst is where Vita wrote her garden column published in “The Observer.” It made her the best-known amateur garden authority of her time.

1 enthusiasts   

n.热心人，热衷者( enthusiast的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive. 一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. 一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。 来自新概念英语第二册

2 hardy   

adj.勇敢的，果断的，吃苦的；耐寒的

参考例句：

• The kind of plant is a hardy annual.这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物。
• He is a hardy person.他是一个能吃苦耐劳的人。

3 austere   

adj.艰苦的；朴素的，朴实无华的；严峻的

参考例句：

• His way of life is rather austere.他的生活方式相当简朴。
• The room was furnished in austere style.这间屋子的陈设都很简单朴素。

4 extravagant   

adj.奢侈的；过分的；(言行等)放肆的

参考例句：

• They tried to please him with fulsome compliments and extravagant gifts.他们想用溢美之词和奢华的礼品来取悦他。
• He is extravagant in behaviour.他行为放肆。