honeysuckle
honeysuckle — 名詞
- honeysucklesingular
- honeysucklesplural
1. A climbing plant that produces sweet-smelling flowers, which are often white, ye
金銀花
開甜味香花的攀緣植物
A climbing plant that produces sweet-smelling flowers, which are often white, yellow, or pink in colour. The flowers contain a tiny drop of nectar that can be sucked out.
Mei-Lin planted a <hw>honeysuckle</hw> vine along the garden fence last spring.
美琳去年春天在花園籬笆旁種了一棵金銀花藤。
collocation: honeysuckle vine
The sweet smell of <hw>honeysuckle</hw> filled the evening air as Boris walked home from work.
鮑里斯下班步行回家時，金銀花的甜香瀰漫在傍晚的空氣中。
collocation: smell of honeysuckle
As children, Lucia and her brother often picked <hw>honeysuckle</hw> flowers and tasted the sweet nectar inside each one.
小時候，露西亞和弟弟常摘金銀花，品嘗每一朵花裡甜甜的花蜜。
Chitra trimmed the <hw>honeysuckle</hw> hedge so it would not block the kitchen window.
奇翠拉修剪了金銀花樹籬，以免擋住廚房窗戶。
- woodbine
A traditional British name for wild honeysuckle, especially the common species Lonicera periclymenum. Less common in everyday use.
用法筆記
Honeysuckle is usually uncountable when referring to the plant in general ('a patch of honeysuckle'), but it can be countable when talking about individual plants or species ('three different honeysuckles in the garden').