英语习语谚语成语用法精粹 文学名著类2-49 the primrose path
the primrose path
【字面理解】布满櫻草花的道路
【英文解析】an easy life that is fiill of pleasure but that causes you harm in the end
【中文解析】享乐之路;因追求享乐而使人堕落的道路
【典型例句】① If we followed your advice we’d all be walking down the primrose path to ruin.如果我们听你的建议就 等于走上堕落自毁的道路。
② He has always followed the primrose path, and his family suffers for it他总是追求寻欢作乐的生活，他的家人 为此而受罪。
【注释】源于莎士比亚的戏剧《哈姆雷特》：剧中奥菲莉娅 (Ophelia)的哥哥莱耳忒斯(Laertes)力主妹妹拒绝 哈姆雷特的求爱，但奥菲莉娅一口回绝了他并谴责他 像个伪君子，她说：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师一 般，指示我上天堂去的一条峻险荆棘途径，而他自己 却像一个放纵轻狂的浪荡子，踏上欢乐之道……)
