The flowers’ white petals contrast handsomely with their lemon-yellow cups.

【cup】这种花白色花瓣和浅黄色花萼形成对比。

The young Negro girls wear them for earrings, pressing the mucilaginous calyxes against the dark lobes of their ears.

年轻黑人女孩戴上它们作为耳环， 将粘液状花萼压在她们黑色耳垂上。

All this bubbling of sap and slipping of sheaths and bursting of calyxes was carried to her on mingled currents of fragrance.

所有这些冒泡汁液、滑落鞘和爆裂花萼都在混合香气中被带到她身边。

And she was charming to see, with her eyes, in which trembled a tear, like the rain of a storm in a blue corolla.

她模样令人看了心醉，眼睛里含着哆嗦泪珠，好像蓝色花萼里蕴藏着暴风雨遗留下来水珠。

The flowers are carved jewels, strangely solid of calyx, made of polished carnelian that opens out, not into petals, but a bright fluted mouth.

奇特固花萼， 由抛光玛瑙制成， 打开时不花瓣， 而一个明亮凹槽嘴。

" Poor dear Dodo — how dreadful" ! said Celia, feeling as much grieved as her own perfect happiness would allow. Her little hands were clasped, and enclosed by Sir James's as a bud is enfolded by a liberal calyx.

“可怜亲爱渡渡鸟——多么可怕啊”！西莉亚说，她感到自己完美幸福所允许悲伤。她小手紧握在一起，被詹姆斯爵士手紧紧握住，就像花苞被宽大花萼包裹着一样。