honeymoon

英 ['h?n?mu?n] 美['h?n?mun]

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第三人稱單數:?honeymoons;過去式:?honeymooned;過去分詞:?honeymooned;現在分詞:?honeymooning;

honeymoon 蜜月

honey,蜜，moon,月。比喻用法，既可理解為時間，也可理解為婚姻如同月亮的陰晴圓缺。

honeymoon: honeymoon: [16] The word honeymoon first appeared in print in the middle of the 16th century. Richard Huloet in his Abecedarium Anglico Latinum 1552 defined it as ‘a term proverbially applied to such as be new married, which will not fall out at the first, but the one loueth the other at the beginning exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceeding love appearing to assuage, the which time the vulgar people call the honey moon’. His description suggests not only that the term had already been around for some time by the 1550s, but also that it was probably inspired by the notion that although married love was at first as sweet as honey, it soon waned like the moon.
honeymoon (n.): 1540s, hony moone, but probably much older, "indefinite period of tenderness and pleasure experienced by a newly wed couple," from honey (n.) in reference to the new marriage's sweetness, and moon (n.) in reference to how long it would probably last, or from the changing aspect of the moon: no sooner full than it begins to wane. French has cognate lune de miel, but German version is flitterwochen (plural), from flitter "tinsel" + wochen "week." In figurative use from 1570s. Specific sense of "post-wedding holiday" attested from c. 1800; as a verb in this sense from 1821. Related: Honeymooned; honeymooning.

1. Brett is enjoying a honeymoon period with both press and public.: 布雷特和報界及公眾之間都正處在蜜月期。

5. While on honeymoon in Bali, she learned to scuba dive.: 她在巴厘島度蜜月時學會了帶水肺潛水.