The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites of the 19th century last week, with 30 pieces showing wistful figures in draped clothing often surrounded with flowers. But while the floral touches might seem like colorful accents to us, to Victorians there was a language in the flowers.

　　上周，美国大都会博物馆举办了一场19世纪前拉斐尔派画展，展出的30幅作品中，裹着长袍的画中人凝神静思，身边往往鲜花簇拥。虽然画中的花朵对我们来说看上去像多彩的点缀，但对维多利亚时期的人来说，花儿们有其独特的花语。

　　Daffodils

　　黄水仙花

　　Daffodils, with their sunny hues, could mean unrequited love and chivalry, and here rest alongside thescrap of sheet music in Rossetti's "Veronica Veronese" (1872).

　　黄水仙拥有阳光的色泽，可以象征单相思和骑士精神。在罗赛蒂的《维罗妮卡·维罗纳》(1872)中，黄水仙花放置于曲谱之上。