perennial「长久的；持续的；反复出现的；多年生的」

perennial「长久的；持续的；反复出现的；多年生的」

Word of the Day : June 16, 2023

perennial

长久的；持续的；反复出现的；多年生的

adjective /puh-REN-ee-ul/ [pəˈreniəl]

What It Means

Perennial is used to describe things that exist or continue in the same way or state for a long time, as well as things that happen again and again. In botany, perennial describes plants whose life cycles are more than two years long, as in "oregano is perennial." The noun perennial is also used in botany, as in "oregano is a perennial."

Perennial 用于形容持续很长时间的事物，以及反复发生的事物。 在植物学中，多年生植物描述的是生命周期超过两年的植物，如“oregano 是多年生植物”。 名词perennial 也用于植物学，如“oregano 是一种多年生植物”。

PERENNIAL in Context

"Wild violets (Viola papilionacea, Viola sororal, Viola pubescens and other species) are a close relative of violas, pansies and other garden flowers. While some people view this plant as a fine wildflower, others regard it as a stubborn perennial lawn weed." — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 6 May 2023

“Wild violets（Viola papilionacea、Viola sororal、Viola pubescens 和其他品种）是violas、pansies 及其他花园花卉的近亲。虽然有些人认为这种植物是一种优良的野花，但其他人则认为它是一种顽固的多年生杂草。 “

Parking is a perennial problem in the quaint seaside town, especially during the summer.

在古色古香的海滨小镇停车是一个长期存在的问题，尤其是在夏季。

Did You Know?

When you hear perennial, you probably think of peonies rather than pines. The word today typically describes (or, as a noun, refers to) plants that die back seasonally but produce new growth in the spring. But this wasn’t the word’s initial meaning: originally, perennial was equivalent to evergreen, used, as that word is, for plants that remain with us all year. We took this "throughout the year" sense straight from the Romans, whose Latin word perennis combined per- ("throughout") with a form of annus ("year"). The poet Ovid, writing around the beginning of the first millennium, used the Latin word to refer to a "perennial spring" (a water source), and the scholar Pliny used it of birds that don't migrate. Perennial retains these same uses today, for streams and occasionally for birds, but the word has long since branched out to encompass several other senses, including "constant" (as in "a perennial bestseller") and "recurring" (as in "the perennial joy of reading Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day").

当听到多年生植物时，您可能会想到牡丹而不是松树。 今天这个词通常描述（或者，作为名词）在特定季节枯死，但在春天发芽的植物。 但这不是这个词的最初含义：最初，perennial 等同于 evergreen，用这个词来指常年与我们同在的植物。 我们直接从罗马人那里得到了“全年”的这个含义，其拉丁词 perennis 将 per-（“全年”）与 annus（“年”）的一种形式结合在一起。 诗人奥维德（大约是在千年初期）使用这个拉丁词来指“perennial spring”（水源），而学者 Pliny 则用它来指从不迁徙的鸟类。 Perennial 今天保留了这些相同的用法，用于溪流，偶尔用于鸟类，但这个词早就扩展到其他几种含义中，包括“constant”（如“ a perennial bestseller ”）和“recurring”（如“the perennial joy of reading Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day”）。

Word Family Quiz

Unscramble the letters to reveal an adjective derived from the Latin noun annus ("year") that describes things that are outmoded or old-fashioned: TRAPENSUEDANU.

superannuated