The point is: botany is about much more than knowing your begonias from your bougainvilleas.

植仅仅是区分开秋海棠和九重葛。

Oh. Well, if you saw what he did to our begonias, you'd slap him, too.

哦。如果你看见对我们的秋海棠做了点什么，你也会扇的。

Someone magical had been near him as he lay among Aunt Petunia's dying begonias, he was sure of it.

刚才躺在佩妮姨妈那奄奄一息的秋海棠丛中时，某个会魔法的人就在近旁，这是肯定的。

" A scribbled over old envelope, and a freshly planted bed of begonias" .

“一个潦草的旧信封，和一张新种的秋海棠花床”。

Isak must make some tiny boxes for begonias, fuchsias, and roses.

Isak 必须为秋海棠、紫红色和玫瑰制作一些小盒子。

" And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance" ?

“你怎么知道这些优质秋海棠的重要性一”？

" We went on with the begonias, sir" .

“我们继续种秋海棠，先生”。

One day I put some beefsteak, beet and begonia into my jeep then drove to visit him.

一天我放了些牛排、甜菜及秋海棠在我的吉普车里然开车去看。

" You were planting a bed of begonias round by the south side of the house yesterday afternoon, were you not, Manning" ?

“昨天下午你在房子的南边种了一圈秋海棠，是吗，曼宁”？

As our Mandrakes are only seedlings, their cries won't kill yet, she said calmly as though she'd just done nothing more exciting than water a begonia.

我们的曼德拉草只是幼苗，听到们的哭声会致命。她平静地说，好像她刚才只是给秋海棠浇了浇水那么平常。

Aureliano smiled, picked her up by the waist with both hands like a pot of begonias, and dropped her on her back on the bed.

奥雷里亚诺笑了笑， 双手如捧一盆秋海棠般搂着她的腰，将她仰面放在床上。

And his reward was to be stuck in Little Whinging for four solid weeks, completely cut off from the magical world, reduced to squatting among dying begonias so that he could hear about water-skiing budgerigars!

得到的回报呢，却是被困在小惠金区整整四个星期，完全与魔法世界失去了联系，得去蹲在那些快要枯死的秋海棠丛中，就是为了能够听到虎皮鹦鹉滑水橇的消息！

Rebeca's old friends, among them four of the Moscote sisters who were still single, once more took up the sessions of embroidery that had been interrupted years before on the porch with the begonias.

丽贝卡的老朋友，其中有四个仍然单身的莫斯科特姐妹，在长着秋海棠的门廊上，再次开始了多年前中断的刺绣活动。

Far from charming in its refinement, the begonia was remarkable for curious and showy foliage; it was conspicuous; it seemed to have no useful purpose; and it insisted on standing always in the most prominent positions.

秋海棠远非精致迷人，是以奇特艳丽的叶子著称。它很显眼；它似乎没有任何用处；坚持始终站在最显眼的位置。

She scattered the red ants, who had already taken possession of the porch, brought the rose bushes back to life, uprooted the weeds, and planted ferns, oregano, and begonias again in the pots along the railing.

她驱散了已经占领了门廊的红蚂蚁，让玫瑰花丛起死回生， 拔掉了杂草， 又在栏杆边的花盆里种上了蕨类植、牛至和秋海棠。

He sat down on the porch, wrapped in his blanket and with his boots still on, as if only waiting for it to clear, and he spentthe whole afternoon watching it rain on the begonias.

坐在门廊上，裹着毯子，还穿着靴子， 好像只是在等天放晴， 整个下午都在看着雨落在秋海棠上。

One morning she saw that the red ants had left the undermined foundations, crossed the garden, climbed up the railing, where the begonias had taken on an earthen color, and had penetrated into the heart of thehouse.

一天早上，她看到红蚂蚁离开了被破坏的地基，穿过花园，爬上了栏杆， 那里的秋海棠已经染上了泥土的颜色， 并钻进了房子的中心。

On the porch with the begonias, in the parlor, in any place in the house, it was possible topoint out the exact place where she had been and the time that had passed since she had left it.

在种着秋海棠的门廊上，在客厅里，在房子的任何地方，都可以指出她去过的确切地方，以及她离开那里已经过去的时间。

He went through the parlor andthe living room, carrying some half-worn saddlebags in his hand, and he appeared like a thunderclap on the porch with the begonias where Amaranta and her friends were paralyzed, their needles in the air.

穿过客厅和起居室，手里提着几个用旧了一半的马鞍包，像霹雳一出现在长满秋海棠的门廊上，阿玛兰塔和她的朋友们在那里被麻痹了，们的针头悬在空中。