| 释义 |
ˈDarling, n.2
The name of a river in western New South Wales used attrib. in the names of certain plants growing in its neighbourhood; also Darling shower, a local name for a dust-storm.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 115/1 Darling Pea, an Australian plant, Swainsonia galegifolia. Ibid., Darling Shower, a local name..for a dust storm, caused by cyclonic winds. 1899Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 10/1 The Riverina breeds a particularly distressful variety of dust-storm known as ‘Darling showers’. 1909Webster, Darling lily, Crinum flaccidum. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad viii. 65 By this time, owing to the protracted drought, sand-storms or ‘Darling showers’, as we facetiously called them, had become an almost daily occurrence in the Red Country. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 63 Darling Pea... One of Australia's poisonous plants; cattle eating it become afflicted with staggers and die: so a man wandering in gait or dazed in appearance is said to be suffering from Darling Pea. Ibid. x. 189 Cobar shower, denotes a duststorm. Darling shower, Wilcannia shower, and Bedourie shower are employed similarly. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 11 It [sc. Patterson's Curse]..does not poison animals, as does the innocuous-sounding Darling Pea. |