| 单词 | salad days |
| 释义 | salad days (once / 61559 pages) n You can refer to the time in your life when you're young and everything is fresh and new as your salad days. Older people are especially likely to talk about their salad days, when they were youthful and inexperienced — and maybe a little naive. The visual image that salad days brings to mind might be a little confusing, but its meaning is actually connected to the color of lettuce leaves. In 1606, Shakespeare used the phrase in "Antony and Cleopatra" to mean young, and green as a metaphor for something that's immature, brief, and fleeting. WORD FAMILYsalad days USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Rollins covered politics, music and his salad days as a young man growing up in the nation’s capital. Washington Times(Oct 23, 2016) I lived in Sydney in the mid 1970's - my salad days. New York Times(Oct 17, 2016) Arpaio’s message hasn’t changed much since his salad days of corralling groups of Latino drivers as part of immigration sweeps. Los Angeles Times(Aug 30, 2016) n the best time of youth Syn|Hyper bloom, bloom of youth time of life a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state |
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