aspidistra

[US]/ˌæspɪ'dɪstrə/
[UK]/ˌæspɪ'dɪstrə/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. [植]蜘蛛抱蛋屬植物; 葉蘭
Word Forms

Real-world Examples

You'd better go back to the aspidistra and wait for me.

這個。 你會最好回到蜘蛛網等我。

Source: One Shilling Candle (Part Two)

When Orwell received news that Keep the Aspidistra Flying had been published, he was already transforming the diary of his northern journey into a novel that would become The Road to Wigan Pier.

當奧威爾收到《讓蜘蛛蘭飛翔》出版的消息時,他已經將他的北方之旅日記改編成一部小說, 後來成爲《通往維根碼頭之路》。

Source: Character Profile

She had always " porch plants" about, grown from slips, of geranium and aspidistra; fuchsia, " the Georgia flower, " sansivaria and elephant-ear and impatient Sultana, all blooming lushly in containers of old tin.

她總是在周圍種些“門廊植物”,用天竺葵和蜘蛛蘭的枝條長成;紫紅色,“格魯吉亞之花”,sansivaria 和大象耳朵和不耐煩的蘇丹娜,都在舊錫容器中盛開。

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

For most of the fifteen months he spent at the bookshop, Orwell worked on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a novel about a poet who struggles to gain recognition from a literary elite that is mostly closed to him.

奧威爾在書店度過的十五個月的大部分時間裏,都在寫《讓蜘蛛蘭飛翔》,這部小說講述了一位詩人如何努力獲得對他幾乎不親近的文學精英的認可的故事。

Source: Character Profile

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