She’s got a really green thumb.
對話 Gordon: What a beautiful garden your parents have!
Fiona: I'm glad you like it. They certainly spend a lot of time on it.
Gordon: And the houseplants are also very attractive.
Fiona: They're my mother's specialty. Some of them are nearly twenty years old.
Gordon: Good heavens, how does she do it?
Fiona: She's got a really green thumb; plants seem to respond to her.
戈登：你父母的花園真美麗??！
菲奧納：很高興你欣賞這座花園。我父母實在花了很多時間打理。
戈登：那些室內(nèi)盆栽植物也很可愛。
菲奧納：那是家母的專長。這些植物之中，有些已經(jīng)長了將近二十年。
戈登：真厲害。她是怎樣種植的？
菲奧納：她很擅長種東西，植物對她也似乎有感應(yīng)。
種植技巧高超，英文叫做to have a green thumb（有綠色拇指），英式英文則說to have green fingers（有綠色手指），例如：Mary certainly has a green thumb: whatever she plants grows well（瑪麗栽花植樹很有一套，無論種什么都長得很好）。此外，你可以用形容詞green-thumbed或green-fingered來形容擅長種植的人，例如：He had a green-thumbed wife who enlivened the garden with various lovely flowers（他太太精通園藝，種了多種可愛花卉，使花園大為生色）。留意a green thumb或green fingers不可和a green hand混淆。植物的嫩綠，會使人想到‘還未成熟’，所以英文常用green來說‘幼稚’或‘缺乏經(jīng)驗’，a green hand即‘生手’，例如：(1) A green hand cannot be expected to earn as mush as an experienced worker（生手賺的錢，當(dāng)然不可能像資深工人那么多）。(2) He is a green camper, and does not even know how to make camp properly（他是露營新手，連怎樣扎營都不知道）?！帧€可以叫g(shù)reener、greenie或greenhorn。Greenhorn是以初長角(horn)的小牛比喻沒經(jīng)驗的人。Garden多是指私人花園；公園假如以garden為名，一般用復(fù)數(shù)形式，例如：(1) We took our children to the public gardens yesterday afternoon（昨天下午，我們和孩子去公園玩耍）、(2) During my stay in England, I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens（我作客英倫期間，去參觀皇家植物公園）。
對話 Gordon: What a beautiful garden your parents have!
Fiona: I'm glad you like it. They certainly spend a lot of time on it.
Gordon: And the houseplants are also very attractive.
Fiona: They're my mother's specialty. Some of them are nearly twenty years old.
Gordon: Good heavens, how does she do it?
Fiona: She's got a really green thumb; plants seem to respond to her.
戈登：你父母的花園真美麗??！
菲奧納：很高興你欣賞這座花園。我父母實在花了很多時間打理。
戈登：那些室內(nèi)盆栽植物也很可愛。
菲奧納：那是家母的專長。這些植物之中，有些已經(jīng)長了將近二十年。
戈登：真厲害。她是怎樣種植的？
菲奧納：她很擅長種東西，植物對她也似乎有感應(yīng)。
種植技巧高超，英文叫做to have a green thumb（有綠色拇指），英式英文則說to have green fingers（有綠色手指），例如：Mary certainly has a green thumb: whatever she plants grows well（瑪麗栽花植樹很有一套，無論種什么都長得很好）。此外，你可以用形容詞green-thumbed或green-fingered來形容擅長種植的人，例如：He had a green-thumbed wife who enlivened the garden with various lovely flowers（他太太精通園藝，種了多種可愛花卉，使花園大為生色）。留意a green thumb或green fingers不可和a green hand混淆。植物的嫩綠，會使人想到‘還未成熟’，所以英文常用green來說‘幼稚’或‘缺乏經(jīng)驗’，a green hand即‘生手’，例如：(1) A green hand cannot be expected to earn as mush as an experienced worker（生手賺的錢，當(dāng)然不可能像資深工人那么多）。(2) He is a green camper, and does not even know how to make camp properly（他是露營新手，連怎樣扎營都不知道）?！帧€可以叫g(shù)reener、greenie或greenhorn。Greenhorn是以初長角(horn)的小牛比喻沒經(jīng)驗的人。Garden多是指私人花園；公園假如以garden為名，一般用復(fù)數(shù)形式，例如：(1) We took our children to the public gardens yesterday afternoon（昨天下午，我們和孩子去公園玩耍）、(2) During my stay in England, I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens（我作客英倫期間，去參觀皇家植物公園）。