narcissus

[nɑr'sɪsəs]

花畅通词汇TEM8

复数: narcissi; narcissus;

narcissus 水仙，水仙花

词源未知，一种观点是认为来自古希腊美少年Narcissus，死后化作水仙花，或因别人在他溺水的地方发现了水仙花而得名，或来自希腊语narke,麻木，失去知觉，词源同narcotic,因水仙花鳞茎的毒性液体可使人麻木而得名。

narcissus: narcissus: [16] The plant-name narcissus goes back via Latin to Greek narkissos. Writers of ancient times such as Pliny and Plutarch connected it with Greek nárkē ‘numbness’ (source of English narcotic), a tempting inference given the plant’s sedative effect, but in fact it probably came from an unknown pre- Greek Aegean language. In Greek mythology the name passed to a vain youth who was punished by the gods for spurning the love of Echo.

They made him fall in love with the reflection of his beautiful features in a pool. He died gazing at his own image and was changed into a narcissus plant. In the 19th century his story inspired the word narcissism. At first it was just a general term for excessive self-admiration and self-centredness, but in the 1890s (probably at the hands of the sexologist Havelock Ellis) it became a technical term for a specific personality disorder marked by those traits.
narcissus (n.): type of bulbous flowering plant, 1540s, from Latin narcissus, from Greek narkissos, a plant name, not the modern narcissus, possibly a type of iris or lily, perhaps from a pre-Greek Aegean word, but associated with Greek narke "numbness" (see narcotic) because of the sedative effect of the alkaloids in the plant.

1. The myth of Narcissus is described in Ovid's work.: 有关那喀索斯的神话故事在奥维德的作品中有过描述。

3. Now I still do not know what a blooming Narcissus looks like.: 知道现在我也不知道一朵盛开的水仙花是什么样子的.

4. The narcissus is becoming more and more lively under mom's careful attendance.: 水仙花在妈妈的精心调养下越发水灵灵的了.