golden
英 ['gəʊld(ə)n]
美 ['ɡoldən]
- adj. 金色的，黃金般的；珍貴的；金製的
- n. (Golden)人名；(英、法、羅、德、瑞典)戈爾登
英文詞源
- golden (adj.)
- c. 1300, "made of gold," from gold (n.) + -en (2); replacing Middle English gilden, from Old English gyldan. Gold is one of the few Modern English nouns that form adjectives meaning "made of ______" by adding -en (as in wooden, leaden, waxen, olden); those that survive often do so in specialized senses. Old English also had silfren "made of silver," stænen "made of stone," etc.
From late 14c. as "of the color of gold." Figurative sense of "excellent, precious, best, most valuable" is from late 14c.; that of "favorable, auspicious" is from c. 1600. Golden mean "avoidance of excess" translates Latin aurea mediocritas (Horace). Golden age "period of past perfection" is from 1550s, from a concept found in Greek and Latin writers; in sense of "old age" it is recorded from 1961. San Francisco Bay's entrance channel was called the Golden Gate by John C. Fremont (1866). The moralistic golden rule earlier was the golden law (1670s).
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them [Matt. vii:12]
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. [George Bernard Shaw, 1898]
雙語例句
- 1. Imagine long golden beaches where you can wander in solitude.
- 想象一下那長長的金色海灘吧，在那裏你可以獨自徜徉。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. First-generation Americans view the United States as a land of golden opportunity.
- 第一代美國人認為美國是一個充滿了機遇的國度。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. If you remember these three golden rules you won't go far wrong.
- 記住這三條金律，就不會錯到哪兒。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The rising sun casts a golden glow over the fields.
- 冉冉升起的太陽在田野中灑下金色的陽光。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Orange and khaki flatter those with golden skin tones.
- 橘黃色和卡其色能襯托那些金黃色皮膚的人。
來自柯林斯例句