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……)