英國學生科學讀本 Lesson 68 風信子(1)

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第68課 風信子

The wild hyacinth is one of the most beautiful of the flowers of spring-time, and it is also one of the most abundant . In April, May, and June, we may find its flowers in many parts of the woods in such numbers that at a distance they look like wreaths of blue smoke resting upon the ground.

野生風信子是春天最為美麗、數(shù)量最為眾多的花朵之一。到了四月、五月、六月, 經(jīng)?？梢栽跇淞种锌吹酱笃笃娘L信子。從遠處望去, 它們就如同一個個藍色煙圈那樣平鋪在地面之上。

The flowers have a rich, sweet perfume , and we can often tell by the scent alone that we are coming near a bed of hyacinths.

風信子散發(fā)著濃郁的甜美香氣, 聞到這種香氣, 就能夠知道附近肯定有一片風信子花床。

Let us dig up a wild hyacinth, bulb, roots, and all, so that we may have the entire plant to examine. The roots are slender and thread-like. They grow out of a bulb about an inch in thickness. This bulb, like the bulb of the onion, is made of many thick and fleshy leaves.

讓我們連同球莖和根挖起一株完整的野生風信子, 仔細觀察這種植物。它的須根非常纖細, 生長在一個厚度約為一英寸的球莖之上。這個球莖跟洋蔥的一樣, 由很多肥厚、多汁的葉片組成。

Several narrow leaves grow up from the bulb to the height of about a foot. From the centre of the bulb rises the flower-stem, which carries near its top from six to twelve small blue flowers. Sometimes, but not often, we find the wild hyacinth bearing white flowers, and sometimes purple flowers.

球莖上長出幾片高度約為一英尺的狹窄葉子?；ㄝ銖那蚯o的中間向上生長, 在其靠近頂部的位置上則開有6–12朵藍色小花。有時候也能看到盛開白色與紫色花朵的風信子, 但不常見。

Each flower looks like a little bell, and for this reason the children in England often call the wild hyacinth the "blue-bell. "But in Scotland and some other places the name "blue-bell" is given to the hare-bell, a very different plant.

每一個花朵看起來都像一個小鈴鐺, 為此, 英格蘭的孩子們經(jīng)常把野生的風信子稱作“藍鈴花”。然而, 在蘇格蘭及其他一些地方, “藍鈴花”指的是另外一種完全不同的植物——圓葉風鈴。

Each hyacinth flower has a little stalk of its own, by which it hangs from the main stem. The outside of the flower consists of six separate deep-blue leaves or petals, which turn back at their tips. Looking inside the bell formed by these blue leaves, we find six dust-spikes or stamens, one growing upon each petal.

風信子的每一花朵都有一枝連接莖干的小花梗?；ǘ涞耐獠坑闪珠_的深藍色花瓣組成, 在靠近頂部的位置向下彎曲。仔細觀察這些藍色葉片構(gòu)成的“鈴鐺”內(nèi)部, 就會看到六個花瓣上分別長有一個粉穗或雄蕊。

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