make hay while the sun shines

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To act while an opportunity exists; to take action while a situation is favorable. idiomatic
    — Until the mid-2010s, the ROSCOs 'made hay while the sun shone', taking advantage of growing passenger demand and expanding services to find homes for their rolling assets - in some cases, well beyond their expected design lives.
  2. To make hay during favourable (dry) weather.

词形变化

makes hay while the sun shines present,singular,third-person making hay while the sun shines participle,present made hay while the sun shone participle,past made hay while the sun shone past

词源

Hay harvest can be spoiled by wet weather. It is important that farmers seize the opportunity of dry weather for haymaking tasks (cutting, drying, gathering), more so in medieval times, when forecasting the weather was more difficult. Attested since 1546, originally a Tudor expression, and used figuratively since 1673.
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