jessamine
jessamine — 名詞
- jessaminesingular
- jessaminesplural
1. A climbing plant that grows on walls or fences, producing many small flowers wit
茉莉
開芳香小花的攀緣植物
A climbing plant that grows on walls or fences, producing many small flowers with a sweet smell; the flowers are often white, yellow, or pink.
The jessamine covering the back wall of Suki's house had small white flowers.
Suki 家後牆上攀爬的茉莉開了白色的小花。
jessamine + covering [surface] — climbing habit pattern
Every summer, the scent of jessamine fills the garden near Vikram's kitchen window.
每年夏天，Vikram 廚房窗邊的花園裡總飄著茉莉的香氣。
collocation: scent of jessamine
Lucia planted a jessamine next to the wooden fence in her mother's garden.
Lucia 在母親花園的木籬笆旁種了一株茉莉。
The pale yellow jessamine flowers opened one by one as the weather grew warm.
天氣轉暖時，淺黃色的茉莉花一朵接一朵地綻放。
Tariq spent Sunday morning cutting back the overgrown jessamine along the side path.
Tariq 星期天早上修剪了小徑旁長得太茂盛的茉莉。
- jasmine
far more common name for the same group of plants; 'jasmine' is used in everyday contexts while 'jessamine' appears more in botanical or historical writing
文法句型
jessamine + verb (grows, climbs, flowers)
用法筆記
Countable when referring to an individual plant (a jessamine) or a variety; uncountable when referring to the plant generally (a wall covered with jessamine). Less common in everyday speech than 'jasmine', but the two words often refer to the same plant.