| 单词 | sensitive plant |
| 例句 | Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, or rye, retarding root development or depressing growth of seedlings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It will be the anxious Albus’s first year, and like his dad, he is a proud, prickly and sensitive plant. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z She is also a sensitive plant, prone to neurotic ramblings and cursed by an inability to remember her lines, or even what she’s just said in real life. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z Every time you look at a stage these days, it seems as if yet another sensitive plant has sprouted there, glowing with eager crushability. Review: In ‘Kid Victory,’ Rescued but Not Free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Cars were parked on the meadows; people had placed tents, sleeping bags, and portable fire pits on top of sensitive plants. Mount Rainier proved too popular among stargazers | Op-Ed 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z He also said the report “fails to accurately describe the environmental setting, including the existence of sensitive plants and wildlife in the project area.” Low on water, but high on celebrity, Las Virgenes seeks wastewater purification facility 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Within seconds of touching this “sensitive plant,” the two leaflets fold together completely. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The group has access to a greenhouse donated by the University of Washington, also used by other groups, for planting chilies, tomatoes and other sensitive plants. Women-led group aims to increase food sovereignty, organic produce access among South Seattle Latinos 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Other considerations are in play when dropping fire retardant so chemicals don’t affect water sources or suffocate sensitive plants. EXPLAINER: How wildfires impact wildlife, their habitat 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z For her, the chance to save one of Utah’s approximately 300 sensitive plant species is worth it. Utah scientists get dirty to save threatened cactus 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Comm growers & those w sensitive plants, check forecast/warnings each day. Freeze watch issued for Washington region’s western areas Friday night as area braces for historic May cold 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Before wall construction began, “the agencies collaborated on a vegetation and plant relocation plan to minimize impacts to protected and sensitive plants,” said Matthew Dyman, a Border Patrol spokesman. It's illegal to destroy saguaro cacti. So why are they being removed for Trump’s border wall? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z For the county, the purchase would provide open space required for its Multiple Species Conservation Program, a regional plan to conserve habitat for sensitive plants and animals, according to a county staff report. This deserted avocado grove could be a gateway to science education 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The sensitive plant can make memories and learn to stop recoiling if you mess with it enough. Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Claude Bernard showed the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica, succumbed to it as early as 1878. Plants, Like People, Succumb to Anesthesia [Video] 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, and rye, retarding root development or inhibiting the growth of seedlings. Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Those temperatures would mean heavy damage for sensitive plants and buds. Hard freeze could damage already-flowering trees 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Environmentalists say turning the land into a golf course will imperil sensitive plants and animals the parks department has taken pains to protect. Proposed golf course yields rare deal with state 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Commercial orchards, a sheep herding operation, and sensitive plant life were threatened. Wind-swept wildfire chars 18,000 acres in Washington state 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z They also tried applying a local anaesthetic – lidocaine, a chemical that your dentist might use – to the roots of the sensitive plant. Plants, Like People, Succumb to Anesthesia [Video] 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z They are designed to show you things and help you avoid trampling over sensitive plant and animal habitats. Exploring nature with a little online help 2013-05-31T18:49:54Z There are altimeters in ancient rocks—altitude sensitive plants. We have the global warming answer 2013-01-20T17:00:00Z The kind of a sensitive plant that the slightest rude touch would blight. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z On the plains, the first vegetation to spring up is the sensitive plant, spreading its delicate foliage over the surface, the leaves closing during the heat of the day, and opening in the evening. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z Here, a normal sensitive plant reacts to touch: Plants, Like People, Succumb to Anesthesia [Video] 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Among other instances of tropical luxuriance, we passed a quantity of sensitive plant. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z It is like the sensitive plant, it need not be cropped; extend but your hand, it withers and dies.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Mr. Henry Harper was a very sensitive plant, and these fashionable and witty ladies did not appear to know that. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He was one of her human, sensitive plants. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z It's a sensitive plant whose vagaries one has to humour. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Are conservation steps for these fungi comparable to those for disturbance sensitive plants? City Room: Answers to Mushroom Questions, Part 2 2011-10-21T21:18:30Z She was as delicate as a sensitive plant, and her words were so fragrant and melodious, that, taken together, they were poetry. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z "Teach me then, Seraphitus," said Minna, in a voice as silvery as a pearl and as gentle as the movements of a sensitive plant. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The advent of a lovely woman, duchess or actress, into the world affects the diamond market as the sensitive plant is affected by the approach of a human hand. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z He explained the part that was played by mimosa pudica, being the "sensitive plant," in the golf of the Fiji islanders. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z She recoiled from them with the instinctive shrinking of the sensitive plant. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z It shook anon like the sensitive plant, Under the golden light aslant. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z How should he answer her?—how warn and caution her without destroying the innocence which, like the sensitive plant, withers at a touch? Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z It is difficult not to thaw somewhat in the presence of one whose words and looks make a genial atmosphere for that sensitive plant—youthful vanity. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z She could have wept over him, for she was one of those unhappily gifted whose soul is like a sensitive plant, and shrinks from the touch of sufferings in others with an exquisite susceptibility. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Kipling shrank from it like a sensitive plant. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z To those accustomed to think of Mimosa as the sensitive plant par excellence my words may sound strange. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Like the sensitive plant, which, on the first touch, curls up its leaves and withdraws within itself, the heart of Fleur-de-Marie became painfully contracted. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 He also sent some seeds of sensitive plant, which we have sown in our garden. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl They knew not her supreme gentleness and modesty, which shrank from publicity like a sensitive plant from touch. The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril I kissed it, in the centre of her palm, and her body curled like a sensitive plant with the warmth of my lips. Love's Usuries The little wife fell back against her husband's breast, when she heard those words, like a sensitive plant which contracts at the slightest touch. Maximina Some years ago I saw what is called a sensitive plant. The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons July.—Our sensitive plant is growing nicely and it is quite a curiosity. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl The monster is endowed with the qualities of the sensitive plant. Toilers of the Sea But there is no need for us to go to the doubtful region; intermediate between plants and animals are sensitive plants which at the least contact fold their leaves or close their petals. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" While sitting with the family on the broad piazza which formed the front of the bungalow, a thrifty sensitive plant was recognized and made the subject of remark. The Pearl of India Thus the sensitive plant Mimosa pudica droops its feathery leaves when touched. Naturalism And Religion It is a bleak enough place now, and must have been even more so forty or fifty years ago when those sensitive plants lived there. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years I am bound to say that my own faith in a�rostatics was a plant—a sensitive plant—of extremely tender growth. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Right in the wild lime hedge which cuts athwart us just homeward of the garden, I found a great bed of kuikui—sensitive plant—our deadliest enemy. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) She drew back as if she had been stung, as a sensitive plant shrinks from the hand that grasps it. The Broom-Squire Some amusing experiments with a mimosa or sensitive plant served to fill a leisure hour at Buena Esperanza, under our host's intelligent direction. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The hairy fringes of its leaves are as responsive to a touch from moth or fly as the sensitive plant itself. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer The ventilation should be such that the house can be kept free from draughts or sudden changes of temperature, as the grape under glass is a sensitive plant, and subject to mildew. Manual of American Grape-Growing The sensitive plant has indigestible seeds—so 22 they say—and it will flourish for ever. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Perhaps you know it as the sensitive plant. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 I would like to exchange seeds of the sensitive plant for seeds or roots of rare plants growing in the far West or in the most eastern States. Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly At the same time she gave a fond pressure on the sensitive plant she still held in her grasp, imprinted a warm kiss on my lips, and then tore herself from my arms. Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover How would Jesus have acted here? would He not have recoiled, like the sensitive plant, from the remotest contact with sin? The Mind of Jesus Big as he is he curls up like a sensitive plant when touched by adversity. The Light of the Star A Novel The sensitive plants close their leaves when touched, and the leaflets of Desmodium gyrans are continually revolving. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In The delicate little sensitive plant here grows in a wild state, equally tremulous and subsiding at human touch, as with us. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months All along the road the sensitive plant, with its feathery pink blossoms, grew in wild profusion. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California Then there is that extremely interesting and singularly funny creeper, the sensitive plant, which, on the approach of anybody, has the power of doubling up its leaves as if in sudden fear. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The delicate little sensitive plant here grows wild, and is equally tremulous and subsiding at the touch of human hands, as it is with us. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Lilac thunbergia wreaths over-arching boughs, and passion-flower flings white and crimson garlands over turf flushed with the pink blossoms of the sensitive plant. Through the Malay Archipelago A tree noticeable for its perfect foliage is the breadfruit; and there are sensitive plants that shrink from intimate attention, and water-plants whose roots need not come into contact with the earth. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan A sensitive plant, or as Judith herself would have said, a “shame briar,” caught at her skirts as she hastened. Judith of the Cumberlands You can call me a beautiful, sensitive plant, while all the time I'm a beastly hypocrite. The Hero of Garside School The leaf-movements of the acacia, the sensitive plant, etc., are well known. Creative Evolution When the sun sets, the sensitive plant spontaneously shuts up its delicate foliage, which does not open again freely until the return of day. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The delicate buttercup-like sensitive plant shrank from their feet in wet places. Heroes of the Middle West The French The Bible is a sensitive plant, which shuts itself up at the touch of mere critical investigation. The Ministry of the Spirit There are plenty of thorns and thistles about, heaps of 'em; but not many sensitive plants. The Hero of Garside School Chicken Little would love the little sensitive plants that curl up their leaves when you touch them and open them again when they think you are gone. Chicken Little Jane He was a sensitive plant, a violet by a mossy stone, and all that sort of thing. A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" There is probably no other ground quite so perilous as politics, unless it be literature: and, as yet, the west is comparatively barren of those “sensitive plants,” literary men. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States The Bible is like a sensitive plant; approach it in the wrong way and it will close its leaves and withhold its fragrance. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses Such innocence around her breathed, And freshness of young nature's play, The sensitive plant shrank not away, And cactus' swords were sheathed. Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse In the United States, where in some localities it has been naturalized, this plant is known as the "sensitive plant." The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals She’s as tough as a rhinoceros, and as strong as an elephant, and as wanting in feeling as—as—” “A sensitive plant,” popped in Mrs Jane. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Geniuses are sensitive plants, in some respects like prima donnas. Memories and Studies Dignity is a sensitive plant which nourishes only under the fairest conditions. The Girl on the Boat I think I must go hunt up their mammas, and beg them to give their little sensitive plants more air and sunshine, to make them hardy. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends I am glad I have not any nerves, my dear little sensitive plant. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The clover trefoil is in some measure a sensitive plant; "its leaves," said Pliny, "do start up as if afraid of an assault when tempestuous weather is at hand." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Men and women of today may be aptly compared to sensitive plants. Vitality Supreme They breathe the atmosphere of their own special world, and the chill wind of popular opinion blows coldly over them; like the sensitive plant, they shiver and wither up at a touch. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. These leaves will frequently fold up, if knocked, like the leaves of a sensitive plant. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Or mark the living principle in the "sensitive plant," which withers at every touch, and suffers long ere it regains its former vigor. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Many flowers and leaves close at night and open in the day-time, but very few indeed exhibit the peculiar action of the sensitive plant in this respect. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy The mere act of his passing had set some sensitive plant to register his presence. Plague Ship But the knowledge she had just come by was making its way to a foremost place in her thought, and her open heart closed gently as a sensitive plant closes its leaves. What Necessity Knows Genius is like the sensitive plant; it shrinks from the touch. The History of Emily Montague In average seasons the late sorts turn in late; but the Broccoli is a sensitive plant, and unseasonable warmth results in premature development. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition The sensitive plant obeys no regular rules of this kind, but acts according to circumstances. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy I seem to wither up like some sensitive plant in that blighting air; half-truths, misunderstandings, and jealousies have corroded our home peace. Uncle Max He's like a sensitive plant charged with gunpowder. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India He was a sensitive plant, a violet by a mossy stone, and all that sort of thing.... Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature One of the most curious things in vegetation which strikes our English eyes is the extraordinary abundance of the sensitive plant. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Ay! but how approach the subject when, at every ardent glance or tone, her face, her heart, shrank and closed up, like the leaves of the sensitive plant. The Missing Bride I saw the sensitive plant; it shrinked at my touching it, tho it was then excessively cold. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 But the fastidious attention which we bestow upon our national maidenhood is as nothing in comparison with the protective commotion with which we surround that shrinking sensitive plant, Mr. Thomas Atkins. The First Hundred Thousand Ursus had the intrepidity of a fly and the impassibility of a sensitive plant. The Man Who Laughs In these times of overwrought nerves, it is not only women that are like sensitive plants. Without Dogma The sensitive plant, when exposed to the vapour of prussic acid, instantly closes its leaves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832 His influence is a very tender, sacred thing, and, like the sensitive plant, recoils at the touch of a rude hand. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss At college he was called "the sensitive plant of Brazenose," because he was always blushing. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Mr. Burnet and Mr. Mayo have found, that at the moment the sensitive plant is touched, so as to occasion motion, it changes colour. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 He began a little hopelessly, feeling the atmosphere, by that subtle sense that makes the creative artist like a sensitive plant where his work is at stake. Bambi His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Right in the wild lime hedge which cuts athwart us just homeward of the garden, I found a great bed of kuikui - sensitive plant - our deadliest enemy. Vailima Letters Up to the west side of the wall, the ground has been cleared, and there are cocoa palms and mummy-apples and guavas, and lots of sensitive plants. Island Nights' Entertainments To that strange sixth sense of his, responsive as the leaves of the sensitive plant, had suddenly come the impression of a human being near at hand. The Octopus : A story of California But if my hand approached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea "Yes, Rose, you are right; she is a very tender, delicate, sensitive plant, and it behooves her father to be exceeding gentle and forbearing with her." Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" The sensitive plant has indigestible seeds - so they say - and it will flourish for ever. Vailima Letters They are like sensitive plants, and shut themselves instinctively away from the human being who does not care for them. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Light exercises a very remarkable influence upon the irritability of the sensitive plant. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 This individual must say to himself, "Anyone can stand what he likes; it takes a philosopher to stand what he does not like," and try at being a philosopher instead of a sensitive plant. Why Worry? Cocoanut palms as well as mangoes and other shady trees line its banks, which, turfed with beautifully green grass, slope gently down to the water, and are sprinkled over with sensitive plants in flower. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore In her imagination it was all to be one long bright flower-show, in which, however, the sweet sorrowing of the sensitive plant would ever and anon invite her to pity and tears. The Three Clerks The Anemones are very sensitive to touch, and will shrink up like a sensitive plant. How Sammy Went to Coral-Land The light of the sky seemed suddenly to be shut down, like the leaves of a sensitive plant. The Home and the World Our sensitive plant; they shut up their leaves and go to sleep at night, and on the approach of rain. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present The same breed of cows, which fatten in Europe on sainfoin and clover, find excellent nourishment in the herbaceous sensitive plants. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 "A sensitive plant would, perhaps, be a kinder expression, sir." Right Ho, Jeeves Wounded, like the bruised sensitive plant, Gelsomina withdrew her mask for air, actually gasping for breath, between offended pride and wonder. The Bravo In connection with the myths of plant life may be noticed that curious species of exotic plants, commonly known as "sensitive plants," and which have generally attracted considerable interest from their irritability when touched. The Folk-lore of Plants Don't think that this bright boy wants to hush us up simply because he is a sensitive plant who can't bear to think that people should be cross with him. The Prince and Betty Dignity is a sensitive plant which flourishes only under the fairest conditions. Three Men and a Maid He was not one of your sensitive plants. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Like the sensitive plant, which at the first touch closes its delicate leaves, and folds them within its bosom, the heart of Fleur-de-Marie contracted painfully. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 We also saw the indigo plant under cultivation, and passed through fields of the sensitive plant as we walked about, while pine-apples were everywhere. Round the World He was a sensitive plant, a violet by a mossy stone, and all that sort of thing…. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Every time they laugh I can see that Lady Erkskine shrivel up like a sensitive plant. Kent Knowles: Quahaug But it is a sensitive plant, the soul of a young and naturally amiable girl; rough blasts may bruise it; even excessive nurture may cause an exuberance of growth and weaken the roots. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Quite like a sensitive plant, the man's entire form seemed to wilt and quiver. Smoke Bellew He was not a sensitive plant, and not to be discouraged by rebuffs. The Young Explorer The half-breed skipper stood next to me, and I snum if you couldn't see him shrivel up like one of them things they call a sensitive plant. Cape Cod Stories You sensitive plants, you hesitating, indefinite creatures, you uncertain around the edges, you non-resisting, and you heroes, whose courage is quick, but whose wit is tardy, make way, and let the human crustacean pass. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Another form of plant-like life takes the colour of rich green—the green of parsley, and faints at the touch, as does the sensitive plant of the land. Confessions of a Beachcomber I must have been the sensitive plant if any thing in that character had hurt me! The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Joseph's feelings were like the leaves of a sensitive plant. Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine "In this hallucination I find it difficult to participate; associated from infancy with the aristocracy, I shrink, like the sensitive plant, from contact with anything vulgar." Christie Johnstone On either side of the road the ground is densely carpeted with the sensitive plant, whose lovely tripartite leaves are green above and brown below. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither And some day I will enjoy myself with a good set to work; but it will be a great advantage if I can get some preliminary notion on other sensitive plants and on roots. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Why, that feller's got fists like—like one of those sensitive plants my mother used to have in the settin'-room window when I was a boy. Mary-'Gusta Josephine drew back at this brusque reply like a sensitive plant. White Lies Now, at his gleesome yawp, rabbits, a mile away, ducked their ears, and sensitive plants closed their fearful fronds. Waifs and Strays Part 1 That quiver of the sensitive plant softened the General. A Woman of Thirty I have steamed the other plants, and made the sensitive plant very sensitive, and shall soon try some experiments on it. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 He seemed to me to be a sort of a mixture of Maltese kitten, sensitive plant, and a member of a stranded 'Two Orphans' company. Options Dear, sensitive plant, swept away by this storm, will you be able to survive in another soil than your native land? The Marriage Contract Seraphitus! teach me," said Minna in a silvery voice, soft as the motion of a sensitive plant, "teach me how to cease to love you. Seraphita The good old man is like a sensitive plant which quivers at the slightest breeze, and glows under the first sun-ray. Seraphita |
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