thơ tiếng anh cổ và nguồn gốc của ...

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Đây là một bài thơ cổ ,gốc gác của thành ngữ “ a bed of roses “.Em không thích thơ cổ lắm vì từ ngữ hơi bị khó hỉu  kết wả là không có hứng cảm thụ. Nhân đây, các vị tiền nhân bày cho em cách đọc văn thơ cổ zới . À , wên, em có 1 quyển truyện thơ của Puskin được dịch sang tiếng Anh, khi nào có thời gian sẽ post lên để đồng bào cùng được đọc he.;)

A bed of roses
Meaning
A pleasant or easy situation.
Origin
From Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd To His Love.
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, [ lùm cây,khu rừng nhỏ ]
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shphers feed their flocks, [ shepherds ,ko biết do lỗi đánh máy hay viết tắt đây ]
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals. [ du dương, êm tai ], [ thơ trữ tình, ca khúc ]
And I will make thee beds of roses [you]
And a thousand fragrant posies, [ bó hoa,chùm hoa nhỏ ]
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle [ai biết từ chính xác chỉ em zới ]
Embroidered all with leaves and myrtle; [ kí nì em cũng pó tay ]
A gown made of the finest wool [áo tôga , áo choàng lạ ghê ]
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lines slippers for the cold, [đôi dép đơn sơ ? ]
Fair lines slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold; [ hô hô ,chắc nghĩa là vàng dẻo ]
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs: [ san hô, bọc trứng tôm hùm ], [ cái móc, sự siết chặt, ôm chặt ai ], [ màu hổ fách ], [ngựa giống ,người trẻ tuổi ]
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.
The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
True coral needs no painter ‘s brush = hữu xạ tự nhiên hương

[khongthatvong]

As mad as a hatter
Meaning
Completely mad.
Origin
Hatters used to use mercury in the making of hats. This affected their nervous systems and, because of the tremors they experienced, they were labelled as mad. The Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is not actually described as mad in the story; although it can hardly be called sane.

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As bald as a coot
Meaning
Completely bald.
Origin
Coots are water birds whose white head colouring give them the appearance of baldness.
ref: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 15th edition

As black as Newgate's knocker
Meaning
Pitch black.
Origin
Refers to the heavy iron knocker on the gate of Newgate Prison, London. Several other similes are used to indicate blackness:
As black as a crow
As black as a raven's wing
As black as ink
As black as Hell
As black as Hades
As black as death
As black as the grave
As black as your hat
As black as thunder
As black as midnight
As black as pitch
As black as soot
As black as tar
... pretty much anything in fact, so long as it conjures up thoughts of darkness.

As brown as a berry
Meaning

Origin
From Chaucer. 'His palfrey was as broune as is a bery'.
"He was a lord full fat and in good point;
His eyen stepe and rolling in his head
That stemed as a fornice of a led;
His botes souple, his hors in gret estat,
Now certainly he was a sayre prelat.
He was not pale as a forpined gost;
A fat swan loved he best of any rost;
His palfrey was as broune as is a bery."