| 词组 | salad days |
| 释义 | salad days Shakespeare coined this term in Antony and Cleopatra ( 1607), wherein Cleopatra dismisses her former love of Caesar as having occurred in "My salad days, when I was green in judgment " Modern writers have taken up the figure of speech, and salad days is often now used to mean "a time of youthful inexperience": • The Paris student is a notorious rebel in his salad days —James P. O'Donnell, Saturday Evening Post, 19 Jan. 1957 • When a starlet was promoted to star, she immediately set about changing her image.... The salad days were never much remembered, certainly not talked about —Esquire, February 1976 In recent years, we have seen the development of a new sense of salad days, "an early flourishing period; heyday": • ... a rundown pub that had seen its salad days at the turn of the century —Horace Sutton, Saturday Rev., 30 Oct. 1971 • ... the way Coward himself in his salad days could sing them with an ... enormously insinuating phrasing —Alan Rich, New York, 19 Feb. 1973 • Those were Sahl's salad days, when The New Yorker did a worshipful profile —Jean Shepherd, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 3 Oct. 1976 A few usage commentators have taken note of salad days, and none of them have much cared for it. Fowler 1926 was inclined to think it was "fitter for parrots' than for human speech"; Evans 1957 found it "wilted." Bremner 1980 quotes Evans; Copperud 1980 believes the phrase is growing quaint and disused. These examples indicate otherwise: • Our reading life has its salad days, its autumnal times —William H. Gass, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 1 Apr. 1984 • ... had not put together two good seasons since his salad days of 1972 and '73 —Mickey Herskowitz, Golf Digest, August 1983 |
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