the primrose path 夏目漱石的英詩用了Hamlet 典故，“傳”之譯者誤了只顧走逍遙嬉耍的蓮馨花之道 莪斐麗亞對哥哥說 孫大雨

 

Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. - Hamlet (1.3.48-52), ...

the primrose path 夏目漱石的英詩用了Hamlet 典故，

“ 夏目漱石傳” (上海譯文 2023)之譯者誤了

孫大雨譯"只顧走逍遙嬉耍的蓮馨花之道" (莪斐麗亞對哥哥說 )

Shakespeare coined the now familiar phrase "primrose path" in Hamlet which he wrote a few years before Macbeth. It describes taking the easy hedonistic path in life which ends in ruin instead of the arduous righteous life which leads to religious salvation in heaven.

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If you lead someone down the primrose path, you encourage that person to live an easy life that is full of pleasure but bad for them:

Unable to enjoy his newly acquired wealth, he felt he was being led down the primrose path to destruction.

Primrose Path or The Primrose Path may refer to:

• Original quote from Hamlet I, iii, by William Shakespeare

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If you lead someone down the primrose path, you encourage that person to live an easy life that is full of pleasure but bad for them:.





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If you lead someone down the primrose path, you encourage that person to live an easy life that is full of pleasure but bad for them:
Unable to enjoy his newly acquired wealth, he felt he was being led down the primrose path to destruction.