英语词汇adonis flower的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Adonis flower; Adonis garden. The Greek goddess Aphro- dite punished the king of Cyprus for his disrespect by making his daughter Myrrha fall in love with him. Discovering this, King Cinyras tried to kill Myrrha, but she was changed into a myrtle, from which the handsome youth Adonis was born. Aphrodite herself fell in love with Adonis; when he was killed by a wild boar while hunting she caused a beautiful red flower to spring from his blood, which had been watered by her tears. Over the centuries, the anemone, the poppy, and the rose have been said to be this Adonis flower. John Gerard’s famous Herb- all (1597) was the first source to mention that the plant com- monly called “pheasant’s eye,” of the family Ranunculaceae, was known as the “Adonis.” A species of butterfly is also so named. An “Adonis garden” is any worthless or very perishable thing, or a momentary pleasure. Its source was the plots of earth in which quick-growing plants such as wheat, lettuce and fennel were planted during the Adonia, the ancient feast of Adonis celebrating his death and resurrection. Symbolic of the brief life of Adonis and grown around a statue of him, the plants were only tended for eight days, allowed to wither and then thrown into the sea along with little images of Adonis. The next year, of course, seeds were sown again and Adonis was resurrected, a ceremony symbolic of the course of vegetation.

词汇	adonis flower
词源	Adonis flower; Adonis garden. The Greek goddess Aphro- dite punished the king of Cyprus for his disrespect by making his daughter Myrrha fall in love with him. Discovering this, King Cinyras tried to kill Myrrha, but she was changed into a myrtle, from which the handsome youth Adonis was born. Aphrodite herself fell in love with Adonis; when he was killed by a wild boar while hunting she caused a beautiful red flower to spring from his blood, which had been watered by her tears. Over the centuries, the anemone, the poppy, and the rose have been said to be this Adonis flower. John Gerard’s famous Herb- all (1597) was the first source to mention that the plant com- monly called “pheasant’s eye,” of the family Ranunculaceae, was known as the “Adonis.” A species of butterfly is also so named. An “Adonis garden” is any worthless or very perishable thing, or a momentary pleasure. Its source was the plots of earth in which quick-growing plants such as wheat, lettuce and fennel were planted during the Adonia, the ancient feast of Adonis celebrating his death and resurrection. Symbolic of the brief life of Adonis and grown around a statue of him, the plants were only tended for eight days, allowed to wither and then thrown into the sea along with little images of Adonis. The next year, of course, seeds were sown again and Adonis was resurrected, a ceremony symbolic of the course of vegetation.
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