| 释义 |
one's salad days1The period when one is young and inexperienced: the war seemed to be ending and so were my salad days...- In my salad days as an eager young university student, I came across a tutor who had something of a reputation for enjoying an occasional flutter on the stock market.
- So, in Denis Santry's salad days, when he was a young wild man living on his own, what did they call his little flat?
- But these were their salad days, and they were young and hopeful.
1.1The peak or heyday of something: journey back to the salad days of the railways...- The global fight-back appears to be working as the company is enjoying its own salad days after two years of the first business slump in its history.
- We reside in the salad days of global liquidity and speculative excess.
- We thought the salad days of heavy metal were long over.
From Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra i. v. 73 See parent entry: salad |