- [countable]
a flower with a sweet smell that grows on a bush with thorns (= sharp points) on its stems 玫瑰（花）；蔷薇（花） 
a bunch of red roses 一束红玫瑰花 a rose bush/garden 玫瑰丛；玫瑰园 a climbing/rambling rose 攀缘的／蔓生的蔷薇
Homophones rose | rowsrose rowsTopics Plants and treesb2- rose noun
He gave me a single red rose. 他给了我一朵红玫瑰。
- rose verb (past tense of rise)
Prices rose 2 per cent in December. 去年12月，房价上涨了2%。
- rows noun (plural of row1)
Five rows of chairs were set out facing the whiteboard. 面对白板摆了五排椅子。
- rows verb (third person of row1)
She rows across the river, helping passengers reach the other side. 她划船过河，帮助乘客到达对岸。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- pink
- red
- yellow
- …
- garden
- bed
- bush
- …
- a bed of roses
- a dozen roses
- the scent of a rose
- …
- (also rose pink)[uncountable]
a pink colour 粉红色 More Like This Colour compoundsColour compounds - [countable]
a piece of metal or plastic with small holes in it that is attached to the end of a pipe or watering can so that the water comes out in a fine spray when you are watering plants （水管或喷壶的）莲蓬式喷嘴 - (also ceiling rose)(specialist)
a round object that is fixed to the ceiling of a room for the wires of an electric light to go through （天花板或顶棚的）灯线盒 see also English rose
Idioms
be coming up roses
- (informal)
(of a situation 形势 to be developing in a successful way 顺利发展；蓬勃发展 Everything’s coming up roses! 一切都很顺利！
(not) a bed of roses
come up/out of something smelling of roses
- (informal)
to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you 虽卷入…而好名声依旧；事后于名誉无损 Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses. 谁也不知道那笔交易的内幕细节，因此他名声依旧。
put roses in somebody’s cheeks
- (British English, informal)
to make somebody look healthy 使双颊红润健康
a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- (saying)
what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called 玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故；名称并不是重要的东西