[noncount]:a slightly purplish-pink color玫瑰色;玫瑰红 — see color picture on this page
come out/up smelling like a rose
informalorcome out/up smelling like/of roses
:to have success or good fortune in a situation in which you were likely to fail, be harmed, etc.绝处逢生
The scandal forced several board members to resign, but the chairman came out smelling like a rose. [=the chairman's reputation was not damaged at all]这个丑闻迫使几个董事会成员辞职,而董事长却清清白白。
coming up roses
informal
:turning out to be good顺利发展;有进展
Now that he finally has a job, everything's coming up roses for him. [=many good things are happening in his life]既然他最终得到了一份工作,一切都会好起来的。
(stop and) smell the roses
informal
:to stop being busy and enjoy the pleasant things in life停止忙碌并开始享受生活中的乐趣
You shouldn't work so hard. You need to take some time to stop and smell the roses.你不必这么苦干。你有时也得歇歇脚,享受一下生活的乐趣嘛。
: any of a genus (Rosa of the family Rosaceae, the rose family) of usually prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves and showy flowers having five petals in the wild state but being often double or partly double under cultivation
roses plural: an easy or pleasant situation or task
it was not all sunshine and roses Anthony Lewis
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: a moderate purplish red
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: a plane curve which consists of three or more loops meeting at the origin and whose equation in polar coordinates is of the form ρ = a sin nθ or ρ = a cos nθ where n is an integer greater than zero
Noun (1) He sent a dozen red roses to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, in part going back to Old English rōse, borrowed from Latin rosa "rose, rosebush"; in part borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin rosa, perhaps borrowed from an unattested derivative of Greek rhódon "rose" — more at rhodo-
Note: Latin rosa is similar enough to Greek rhódon that a relationship seems likely, but its nature is unclear. An outcome of rhodéā "rosebush" with a sibilant transmitted to Latin through Etruscan might explain the failure of -s- to rhotacize (unless rhotacism was nullified by the dissimilatory effect of the initial r). Both the Greek and Latin words have been attributed to a Mediterranean substratum, but this does not jibe with the presumed Iranian origin of rhódon.
ADJECTIVE | ROSE + NOUN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤pink, red, yellow, etc.粉玫瑰、紅玫瑰、黃玫瑰等▸➤climbing, rambling, shrub攀緣/蔓生/灌木薔薇▸➤long-stemmed長莖玫瑰▸➤fresh新鮮的玫瑰花◇She put fresh roses in the vases.她把新鮮的玫瑰放在花瓶裏。➤wild野生玫瑰ROSE + NOUN➤garden玫瑰園▸➤bed玫瑰花壇▸➤bush玫瑰叢▸➤petals玫瑰花瓣▸➤bowl玫瑰花鉢PHRASES➤a bed of roses稱心如意的境遇➤a dozen roses一打玫瑰花▸➤the scent of a rose, the smell of a rose玫瑰的香氣/氣味➡ note at flower(for verbs)