【英语时差8,16】蝴蝶灌木

 Tips:

nectar--花蜜

caterpillar¹--毛虫

chrysalis--蛹

monarch²--君主

swallowtail--凤蝶

parsley--香菜

phlox--福禄考

loosestrife--小米草

Buddleia Davidii--醉鱼草

panicle--穗

lavender--薰衣草紫

Clive Sansom--克莱夫桑塞姆

Shantung--山东

flippant--轻率

polkas--波尔卡

 

 Adult butterflies feed on nectar, so many gardeners purposefully choose plants to attract them. Remember however, that there are four stages in the life of a butterfly: the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, and the adult. The caterpillars³ munch⁴ on the leaves of garden plants. For example, monarch caterpillars love milkweed, but the monarch adult butterflies will also be attracted to the nectar in goldenrod, thistle, cosmos⁵ and lantana.

 

    Eastern black swallowtail caterpillars love Queen Anne’s lace and parsley, but adult swallowtails enjoy the nectar from phlox, clover and loosestrife. If you wish to attract many butterflies to your garden, plant a butterfly Bush, “Buddleia Davidii,” in your garden. It likes ordinary, well-drained soil and full sun.

 

    It is hardy⁶ to zone 5 and blooms on new wood, so if winter kills the top growth, it will still bloom. Just cut back in the early spring. The panicles of flowers come in white, pink, lavender and blue and cover the five foot shrub⁷ during late summer and fall. Clive Sansom’s poem captures the magic of butterflies. He wrote:

 

Light as petals⁸, white as daisies

 

 

Shantung - cool in summer’s blaze

 

Butterflies through leaf green mazes⁹

 

 

Go their drunken, darling ways.

 

Gay erratic¹⁰, wayward dancers

 

Treading with a flippant grace

 

 

Airy polkas, fairy dancers

 

Down the polished floors of space.

1 caterpillar   

n.毛虫，蝴蝶的幼虫

参考例句：

• A butterfly is produced by metamorphosis from a caterpillar.蝴蝶是由毛虫脱胎变成的。
• A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶。

2 monarch   

n.帝王，君主，最高统治者

参考例句：

• The monarch's role is purely ceremonial.君主纯粹是个礼仪职位。
• I think myself happier now than the greatest monarch upon earth.我觉得这个时候比世界上什么帝王都快乐。

3 caterpillars   

n.毛虫( caterpillar的名词复数 )；履带

参考例句：

• Caterpillars eat the young leaves of this plant. 毛毛虫吃这种植物的嫩叶。
• Caterpillars change into butterflies or moths. 毛虫能变成蝴蝶或蛾子。 来自辞典例句

4 munch   

v.用力嚼，大声咀嚼

参考例句：

• We watched her munch through two packets of peanuts.我们看她津津有味地嚼了两包花生米。
• Getting them to munch on vegetable dishes was more difficult.使他们吃素菜就比较困难了。

5 cosmos   

n.宇宙；秩序，和谐

参考例句：

• Our world is but a small part of the cosmos.我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已。
• Is there any other intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos?在宇宙的其他星球上还存在别的有智慧的生物吗？

6 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。

7 shrub   

n.灌木，灌木丛

参考例句：

• There is a small evergreen shrub on the hillside.山腰上有一小块常绿灌木丛。
• Moving a shrub is best done in early spring.移植灌木最好是在初春的时候。

8 petals   

n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
• The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

9 mazes   

迷宫( maze的名词复数 )； 纷繁复杂的规则； 复杂难懂的细节； 迷宫图

参考例句：

• The mazes of the dance were ecstatic. 跳舞那种错综曲折，叫人快乐得如登九天。
• For two hours did this singlehearted and simpleminded girl toil through the mazes of the forest. 这位心地单纯的傻姑娘在林间曲径中艰难地走了两个来小时。

10 erratic   

adj.古怪的，反复无常的，不稳定的

参考例句：

• The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
• The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。