英語習語諺語成語用法精粹 文學名著類2-49 the primrose path

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【字面理解】布滿櫻草花的道路

【英文解析】an easy life that is fiill of pleasure but that causes you harm in the end

【中文解析】享樂之路;因追求享樂而使人墮落的道路

【典型例句】① If we followed your advice we’d all be walking down the primrose path to ruin.如果我們聽你的建議就 等于走上墮落自毀的道路。

② He has always followed the primrose path, and his family suffers for it他總是追求尋歡作樂的生活，他的家人 為此而受罪。

【注釋】源于莎士比亞的戲劇《哈姆雷特》：劇中奧菲莉婭 (Ophelia)的哥哥萊耳忒斯(Laertes)力主妹妹拒絕 哈姆雷特的求愛，但奧菲莉婭一口回絕了他并譴責他 像個偽君子，她說：Do not, as some ungracious pastors do，show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a pufFd and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dallimice treads...(不要像那些缺德的牧師一 般，指示我上天堂去的一條峻險荊棘途徑，而他自己 卻像一個放縱輕狂的浪蕩子，踏上歡樂之道……)