英语词汇our lord-s candle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

our Lord’s candle. Margaret Armstrong and John Thornbec describe this striking American plant in their Field Book of Wild Flowers (1915): “The flowers of Yucca Whipplei, one of the most beautiful of all Yuccas, are of a lovely golden hue, glowing in the bright sunlight like lighted candles before the al- tar, and known as ‘Our Lord’s candle’ . . . After they have blos- somed the tall, white stalks remain standing for some time, so that the hills look like they have been planted with numbers of white wands.”

词汇	our lord-s candle
词源	our Lord’s candle. Margaret Armstrong and John Thornbec describe this striking American plant in their Field Book of Wild Flowers (1915): “The flowers of Yucca Whipplei, one of the most beautiful of all Yuccas, are of a lovely golden hue, glowing in the bright sunlight like lighted candles before the al- tar, and known as ‘Our Lord’s candle’ . . . After they have blos- somed the tall, white stalks remain standing for some time, so that the hills look like they have been planted with numbers of white wands.”
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