golden

英 ['g??ld(?)n] 美['ɡold?n]

近義詞metallic

CET4TEM4考研CET6中頻詞核心詞匯

golden (adj.): c. 1300, "made of gold," from gold (n.) + -en (2); replacing Middle English gilden, from Old English gyldan. Gold is one of the few Modern English nouns that form adjectives meaning "made of ______" by adding -en (as in wooden, leaden, waxen, olden); those that survive often do so in specialized senses. Old English also had silfren "made of silver," st?nen "made of stone," etc.

From late 14c. as "of the color of gold." Figurative sense of "excellent, precious, best, most valuable" is from late 14c.; that of "favorable, auspicious" is from c. 1600. Golden mean "avoidance of excess" translates Latin aurea mediocritas (Horace). Golden age "period of past perfection" is from 1550s, from a concept found in Greek and Latin writers; in sense of "old age" it is recorded from 1961. San Francisco Bay's entrance channel was called the Golden Gate by John C. Fremont (1866). The moralistic golden rule earlier was the golden law (1670s).
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them [Matt. vii:12]

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. [George Bernard Shaw, 1898]

1. Imagine long golden beaches where you can wander in solitude.: 想象一下那長長的金色海灘吧，在那里你可以獨自徜徉。

2. First-generation Americans view the United States as a land of golden opportunity.: 第一代美國人認為美國是一個充滿了機遇的國度。

3. If you remember these three golden rules you won't go far wrong.: 記住這三條金律，就不會錯到哪兒。

5. Orange and khaki flatter those with golden skin tones.: 橘黃色和卡其色能襯托那些金黃色皮膚的人。