wallflower 的定义
- a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
- any person, organization, etc., that remains on or has been forced to the sidelines of any activity: The firm was a wallflower in this year's bidding for government contracts.
- a European plant, Cheiranthus cheiri, of the mustard family, that, when growing wild on walls, cliffs, etc., has sweet-scented, usually yellow or orange flowers, but when cultivated has flowers varying in color from pale yellow to brown-red or purple.
- any of several related plants of the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum.
wallflower 近义词
等同于 introvert
更多wallflower例句
- Potato-leek soup, sometimes a wallflower, turns into a talker at the table.
- Specifically: the second it appeared in that trailer for The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
- But Michele Bachmann, who has been a wallflower of late, may point the way to a more efficacious line of attack: crony capitalism.
- On The Real Housewives of New York City, Alex McCord has morphed from wallflower to rabble-rouser.
- His anthology, On Film Festivals (Wallflower Press), was published in 2009.
- The legendary singer, who died Sunday, was no wallflower when it came to defending herself against racial slurs.
- While the young folks dance, the old folks play wallflower or cards, or take snuff or punch, or talk politics.
- It was a comical sight and Hopalong, the only wallflower besides Baum and the sheriff, laughed until he became weak.
- Across walls and floors the brambles trailed, and the yellow wallflower crowned the ruins of the stonework everywhere.
- Snapdragon, wallflower, pansies, and hollyhocks are very easily grown from seed.
- Our first species is the well-known Wallflower (Cheiranthus cheiri), of the order Crucifer.