cakes and ale

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkeɪks n̩ ˈeɪl/    美 /ˌkeɪks n̩ ˈeɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The simple material pleasures of life. UK,dated,idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — To furnish the cakes and ale of the mind, is, we take it, the proper virtue of novels. It is for mental delight and recreation that we resort to them.
  2. Lively fun and merrymaking. UK,dated,idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — Doſt thou thinke becauſe thou art vertuous, there ſhall be no more Cakes and Ale?

词源

From William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night (written c. 1601–1602), Act II, scene iii: see the quotation.
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