英语词汇poplar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

poplar. After destroying the monster Kakos in a cavern of Aventine, the legendary hero Hercules took a branch from one of many poplar trees growing there and bound it around his head. When Hercules descended to Hades to return Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog of the infernal regions, the heat there caused a perspiration that blanched the underside of the leaves on the poplar branch, while the smoke of the eternal flames blackened their upper surface. And that is why, accord- ing to fable, the leaves of the poplar are dark on one side and white on the other. The poplar takes its name from populus, the Latin name for the tree.

词汇	poplar
词源	poplar. After destroying the monster Kakos in a cavern of Aventine, the legendary hero Hercules took a branch from one of many poplar trees growing there and bound it around his head. When Hercules descended to Hades to return Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog of the infernal regions, the heat there caused a perspiration that blanched the underside of the leaves on the poplar branch, while the smoke of the eternal flames blackened their upper surface. And that is why, accord- ing to fable, the leaves of the poplar are dark on one side and white on the other. The poplar takes its name from populus, the Latin name for the tree.
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