daisy的词源

英文词源

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daisy: [OE] The Anglo-Saxons named this familiar flower dæges ēage, literally ‘day’s eye’, from the fact that some species open in daylight hours to reveal their yellow disc, and close again at dusk. (The medieval Latin name for the daisy was solis oculus ‘sun’s eye’.)
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Old English dægesege, from dæges eage "day's eye," because the petals open at dawn and close at dusk. (See day (n.) + eye (n.)). In Medieval Latin it was solis oculus "sun's eye." As a female proper name said to have been originally a pet form of Margaret (q.v.).

Daisy-cutter first attested 1791, originally of horses that trot with low steps; later of cricket (1889) and baseball hits that skim along the ground. Daisy-chain in the "group sex" sense is attested from 1941. Pushing up daisies "dead" is attested from 1918, but variants with the same meaning go back to 1842.

中文词源

daisy(雏菊):传说中“白天的眼睛”   

雏菊(daisy)是意大利的国花,外观雅致,花朵娇小玲珑,色彩和谐,十分逗人喜爱。意大利人认为它代表了君子风度和天真浪漫,因此推举为国花。

  雏菊的花心像太阳,花瓣像太阳的光芒,因此又被称为小小向日葵。传说它的花瓣清晨绽放,傍晚闭合,因此人们称它为day’s eye(白天的眼睛),后来演变为daisy。

  在古代,年轻人爱用雏菊的花瓣来占卜爱情,一面念着“他爱我,他不爱我,他爱我直到天荒地老,”一面数着花瓣,最后一瓣对于的一句代表了爱情的结果。

  在英语中,daisy还可以用来表示“极好的东西”,还可以用作女子的名字。

  daisy:['deɪzɪ] n.雏菊,极好的东西,(女子名)黛西adj.极好的,一流的

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daisy:雏菊

来自短语day’s eye. 因这种花朝开暮合而得名。

daisy:雏菊

daisy乃原产欧洲的一种花卉植物,汉语通称“雏菊”。该词在古英语作daeges eage,相当于现代英语day's eye。为什么称此花为day's eye呢?此花花轴长,盘花黄色,边花白色或紫色,呈辐射形,日落而合,日出面开,每朵花宛如喷薄而出的一轮旭日,恰似夜晚闭合,早晨睁开的一只服睛。