The Bad Side of Roses — VOA Learning English
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
On today’s program, let’s talk about flowers; but not just any flowers -- roses.
Who doesn’t love a beautiful, sweet-smelling rose? The ancient Greeks and Romans connected roses with Aphrodite and Venus, the goddess of love. In modern times, you give a red rose to your true love and a yellow one to your true friend.
But roses also have a bad side -- thorns.
A thorn is the very sharp part of some woody plants, like blackberry bushes and roses. A prick from a thorn is painful and can cause you to bleed. So, a rose has both beauty and pain.
That is where the saying every rose has its thorns comes from. It means that rarely is something…
Торкнись будь-якого слова — переклад з’явиться одразу, а слово ляже в твою добірку разом із реченням.