The Language of Flowers (2)

The Language of Flowers (2)   매주 금요일마다 찾아오는 Joy of Reading! 영어 읽기의 즐거움을 느껴 보세요. I was out of breath by the time I returned to the house. The living room was empty, and I stepped inside to unwrap the dahlias. The flowers were perfect starbursts, layers of white-tipped purple petals unfurling from tight buds of a center. Biting off an elastic band, I detangled the stems. The girls would never understand the meaning of the dahlias (the meaning itself an ambiguous statement of encouragement); even so, I felt an unfamiliar lightness as I paced the long hall, slipping a stem under each closed bedroom door. - The Language of Flowers petal 꽃잎 unfurl 펼쳐지다, 펼치다 detangle 풀다 ambiguous 여러 가지로 해석되는, 애매모호한