单词 | golden opportunity |
释义 | > as lemmasgolden opportunity a. Of a situation, moment in time, etc.: exceedingly favourable, advantageous, or propitious; opportune; (also) full of promise, providing expectation of good. Now esp. in golden opportunity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [adjective] > very favourable goldena1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxii. 537 The dawinge is ende of þe nyȝt þat passiþ..and hatte aurora, as Isidir seiþ, as it were ‘a goldene houre’, for it sendiþ schinynge coloure as it were colour of golde. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lviii (MED) Sluggart, for schame! lo here thy goldin houre, That worth were hale all thy lyvis laboure. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1593) 467 When golden opportunitie is past, no time will fit for her. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 20 'Tis..unsufferable..to let the Golden houres of the morning passe without advantage. 1693 S. Wesley Life our Blessed Lord iii. 98 Now wou'dst thou set thy injur'd Nation free..Now is the time, the golden moment now. 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent i. i. 156 I snatch'd the glorious, golden opportunity. 1796 H. Macneill Waes o' War ii. 18 A' his gowden prospects vanish'd! 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 32 At such a golden moment as this. 1884 Earl Grey in 19th Cent. Mar. 514 The golden opportunity was thrown away. 1958 Rotarian Aug. 9/2 We can open the doors to a golden future. 1993 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 26 Dec. 4 Hong Kong will be in a golden position to expand. 2018 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 12 July 66 The England captain..had a golden opportunity to score late in the 90 minutes. < as lemmas |
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