born with a silver spoon 的定义
- Born wealthy, or fortunate, or both, as in Paul can afford to go to medical school; he was born with a silver spoon. Although some authorities believe this phrase alludes to the custom of godparents giving their godchild a silver spoon, affordable only by rich persons, it is more likely that the spoon has come to symbolize wealth. [c. 1700]
born with a silver spoon 近义词
等同于 fortunate
born with a silver spoon 的近义词 42 个
- affluent
- encouraging
- fortuitous
- happy
- healthy
- helpful
- lucky
- profitable
- prosperous
- successful
- wealthy
- well-off
- advantageous
- auspicious
- blessed
- bright
- charmed
- convenient
- favorable
- favored
- felicitous
- flourishing
- gaining
- get a break
- golden
- hopeful
- in luck
- in the gravy
- on a roll
- opportune
- overcoming
- promising
- propitious
- providential
- rosy
- sitting pretty
- sunny side
- thriving
- timely
- triumphant
- victorious
- well-to-do
born with a silver spoon 的反义词 18 个
更多born with a silver spoon例句
- The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
- Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Cosby conspiracy theorists share a perspective born of a long, pained history of American racism.
- A few months later, after their children were born, we visited the men and women again.
- To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
- So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!