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谈论 “gardening（园艺）” 时常用的英语词汇和表达

Episode 260902 / 02 Sep 2026

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在生活和工作空间里摆放绿植、鲜花，是不少人的日常习惯。在英国，很多人也热衷于在花园或阳台种植自己喜欢的花草，还会前往当地的 “gardening centre（园艺中心）” 挑选幼苗、种子和各类园艺用品。听节目，跟主持人步理和 Neil 学习与园艺和植物养护相关的英语单词和表达。

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（关于台词的备注: 请注意这不是广播节目的逐字稿件。本文稿可能没有体现录制、编辑过程中对节目做出的改变。）

Neil
Hey, Buli, do you know anything about the mud stains outside this studio?

Buli
Yeah… Those are probably from my boots. And watch out for your pants, too. Sorry I accidentally put a bag of compost on that chair.

Neil
What?!

Buli
大家好，欢迎收听 BBC 英语教学的 “你问我答” 节目。I'm Buli.

Neil
And I'm Neil. Since I've checked my chair and luckily, everything seems fine, let's hear the question.

Question
你好，我的英国笔友和我一样都喜欢摆弄花花草草，但有时候我不知道怎么给他形容我种东西的方法和过程，比如不同生长阶段的植物啊，花啊怎么说，还有松土和移栽用的小铲子和小耙子之类的工具和使用它们的动作。请问你们可以介绍一些这方面的词汇和表达吗？

Neil
I like this question because I've started to grow things in my garden, so it's good to share the vocabulary about it.

Buli
Yes. Any hobby has its own specialist set of language. Let's learn some of it in this programme.

Neil
Where have you been anyway, Buli? You've never worn boots to the office before.

Buli
Oh, I've just been to the garden centre. I've bought a pot and some seeds. I'm going to try to grow these flowers.

Neil
And you've got the other things you need? A trowel, watering can, a rake perhaps? I see you've got compost at least.

Buli
Yes, I've got all of that. I've even got a big garden fork at home.

Neil
Ah. Well, it definitely sounds like you like gardening!

Buli
Yeah, look at this picture of my garden. Everything is at different stages. There are some tiny seedlings here – you can just see the first green shoots. But if you look at those flowers, they've already got some buds. I just can't wait to see them bloom.

你正在收听的是 BBC 英语教学制作的 “你问我答” 节目。在本期节目中，我们正在学习和 “gardening（园艺）” 有关的英语表达。其实不只是在宽阔的花园里，哪怕是形容如何在阳台或桌面上养点花花草草，这些单词和表达也都能派上用场。

We've got quite a few gardening words here, so let's go through them.

Neil
Yes. For a start, some of them are related to different stages of growing a plant – 'seed', 'seedling', 'buds' and 'bloom'. A seed is the thing you put in the ground. You plant it. When you start to see the first tiny green stems or shoots above the ground, we can call them seedlings.

Buli
Then as the plants grow, you might start to see buds. These are the round shapes that flowers grow out of.

“Seed（种子）”、“seedling（幼苗）”、“bud（花蕾）” 和 “bloom（花朵）” 四个单词分别对应了植物生长周期中常见的四个阶段和形态。在英语中，“seed”、“bud” 和 “bloom” 这三个单词也可以作动词使用。

Buli
动词 “seed” 的意思是 “播种，种下种子”，而 “bud” 和 “bloom” 分别指的则是花草 “发芽，结出花骨朵” 和 “花朵绽放” 的过程。

We heard some of the tools that you can use to take care of plants as well – a 'trowel', 'rake' and 'fork'.

Neil
Yes, a trowel is a little shovel with a short handle that you can use to dig something small. A rake is like a hard broom with a long handle, but with hard metal teeth. We can use it to help prepare the soil for planting, breaking up big bits of earth. We can also use 'rake' as a verb to describe doing this.

Buli
The other thing we use for breaking up the earth and planting things is a fork – it looks a bit like the thing we use for eating, but it's much bigger!

在照顾花草时，我们也会用到许多特殊的工具。比如，“trowel” 指的就是 “可以单手使用的小铲子，松土用的小手铲”。而需要大面积松土或清扫土地时用到的 “耙子”则可以叫做 “rake”。要注意的是，“rake” 通常指的是那些齿部比较密集的 “耙子”，而只有少数分叉的 “草叉” 或 “园艺叉” 则被称为 “fork”，两者的用途是有些不同的。同时，“rake” 还可以作动词，描述 “用耙子松土、整平土地” 的动作。

顺带一提，和国内的 “花鸟鱼虫市场” 有些类似，在英国，人们也会去 “gardening centre（园艺中心，园艺卖场）” 来选购和园艺有关的种子、植物、工具和装饰品。

Then we had a couple of words to talk about where you grow things. We heard 'pot' and 'compost'.

Neil
So, compost is like soil, but it has nutrients that help plants grow. You can buy it at a garden centre, or you can make your own by keeping things like vegetable cuttings and fruit peel and letting it break down for a few months.

And unlike a cooking pot, a flowerpot is the container that you can grow things in. They are usually round and might have holes in the bottom to let out excessive water. Long and rectangular containers for plants are usually called 'planters'. 

Buli
是的。在英国，“长方形的园艺盆或花园盆” 通常被叫做 “planters”，“圆形的小花盆” 则可以被称为 “pot” 或 “flowerpot”。放在花盆里或者撒在地里帮助植物生长的 “营养土，堆肥” 在英语中被叫做 “compost”。同时，我们也可以用 “compost” 作动词来描述 “制作堆肥” 的过程。

最后，Neil 在节目一开始的对话中还提到了一件十分常见的工具，那就是 “watering can（洒水壶，浇花壶）”。它对应的动作自然就是 “water（浇水）”。

Neil
By the way, all that sounds like a lot of hard work, though, so I prefer to use a hosepipe, which is a long flexible pipe you attach to a tap and use to water your garden.

Buli
That is convenient when you have a lot to water!

希望本期节目能帮到这位喜欢摆弄花草的听众，也祝大家在闲暇时种下的绿植和鲜花都能健康成长，为生活增添一抹清新！

Neil
And remember, if you have a question you'd like us to answer, you can email us too at: [email protected]

Buli
你还可以通过微博向我们提问。我们的微博账号是 “BBC英语教学”。Bye!

Neil
Goodbye!

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