silver lining

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A favorable aspect or prospect of a mostly unfavorable event or situation. figuratively
    — Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night? / I did not err: there does a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night, / And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

词形变化

silver linings plural

词源

Originating in John Milton's poem Comus; see the quotation from 1634. The proverb every cloud has a silver lining is an allusion to the relevant passage.
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