prime of life 的定义
- The best years of one's life, when one is at the peak of one's powers, as in She was in the prime of life when she began to lose her sight. The related phrase in one's prime can be applied to objects as well as persons. For example, The roses were in their prime when you last saw them. In both idioms prime means “first in quality or character.” [Early 1700s] Also see past one's prime.
prime of life 近义词
等同于 majority
prime of life 的近义词 12 个
- estate
- manhood
- maturity
- prime
- seniority
- womanhood
- age of consent
- drinking age
- full age
- legal maturity
- ripe age
- voting age
prime of life 的反义词 5 个
等同于 maturity
等同于 salad days
prime of life 的近义词 8 个
更多prime of life例句
- His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
- Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.
- It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
- I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.
- I liked it because it was like my life coming back together.
- Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
- Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
- We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
- It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
- Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.