periwinkle

英 [ˈperiwɪŋkl]

美 [ˈperiwɪŋkl]

n.  蔓长春花

复数：periwinkles　

BNC.47864 / COCA.27813

牛津词典

noun

• 蔓长春花
  a small plant that grows along the ground
• 蔓长春花
  a small plant that grows along the ground

柯林斯词典

• 蔓长春花
  Periwinkleis a plant that grows along the ground and has blue flowers.
• 滨螺；玉黍螺
  Periwinklesare small sea snails that can be eaten.

英英释义

noun

• edible marine gastropod
  Synonym:winkle
• small edible marine snail
  Synonym:winkle
• commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
  Synonym:rose periwinkleMadagascar periwinkleold maidCape periwinklered periwinklecayenne jasmineCatharanthus roseusVinca rosea
• chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers

双语例句

• Any of various marine gastropods, such as a periwinkle, having a spiral shell.
  任一种海栖软体动物，如滨螺，长有螺旋形的壳。
• This stunning shot shows the towers'reflections against the salmon pink sky, with the periwinkle haze of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the background.
  这张极好的照片显示了反衬在橙红色天空里的钙华塔，背景是内华达山脉里玫瑰色的薄雾。
• Develop a HPLC analysis method for ursolic acid in periwinkle for the first time, and the results showed the ursolic acid content in leaf was highest and bloom was mininum.
  首次测定了长春花中熊果酸含量，结果表明叶中含量最高，花中最低。
• The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
  报春花小道环绕着花环；
• On a background of softest seafoam, with a wing-shaped fin worked in shades of fuschia, periwinkle and teal, she is a part of the mysterious, impetuous sea captured forever on canvas.
  在柔软的海泡石的背景下，有着翅膀状的鱼鳍，在玫红紫色和蓝绿色交织的夜色下，她永远是画布上神秘莫测而又奔腾激烈的大海的战利品的一部分。
• "I should like to be a periwinkle," said he, mysteriously," on the top of a valley, and sing tooralloo-ralloo."
  “我倒喜欢成为一枝长春花，”他玄妙地说，“长在峡谷之巅，高唱嘟啦卢拉卢。”
• Some of nature's most complicated chemistry takes place in the shoots and leaves of the tiny, unassuming periwinkle plant.
  微小的长春花属植物的根和叶子可产生一些大自然的最复杂的化学物质。
• Fill rooms with tranquil colors such as white, silver, periwinkle and pearl.
  通常你会选择白、银和珍珠色等安静的颜色来装扮房间。
• Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle.
  他的心虽黑，他的蓝眼睛却像长春花一样柔和。
• I overheard the fishermen in town saying that tomorrow they will come to this pond and drain it of every fish and every shell to the last periwinkle. When that happens, I am doomed for I shall have nothing to live on.
  我听城里的渔夫们说，他们明天要来捕光所有的鱼和甲壳类动物，连个螺蛳也不剩，那样我就死定了，因为我没有东西吃了。