英语词汇flanders poppies的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	flanders poppies
词源	Flanders poppies. In England the artificial red flowers sold on Remembrance Day for the benefit of war veterans are called Flanders poppies. A 1915 poem by John McCrae called “In Flanders Fields” seems to have been the first to connect this flower with the dead of World War I: If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
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