narcissus

[nɑr'sɪsəs]

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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.

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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.