第2650期:Green Means Spring and Other Things

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants. 绿色本质上是重要的颜色。 它是草的颜色和树木上的叶子。 它也是大多数生长植物的颜色。 Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. 有时，绿色一词意味着年轻，新鲜和成长。 有时，它描述了尚未成熟或完成的东西。 For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job. 例如，一个没有经验的人，对情况是新手。 在十五世纪，格林霍恩（Greenhorn）是一头年轻的牛或牛，其角尚未发展。 大约一个世纪后，一个格林霍恩（Greenhorn）是一名士兵，尚未在战斗中有任何经验。 到18世纪，一个格林角具有今天的意义 - 一个新工作的人。 About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east. The greenhorn lacked the skills he would need to live in the hard, rough country. 大约一百年前，格林霍恩在美国西部是一个流行的表达。 老朋友用它描述了一个刚从一个大城市回到东部的一个人。 格林霍恩缺乏在艰难而艰难的国家生活所需的技能。 Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1900s. 据说有能力良好种植植物的人有绿色的拇指。 表达来自1900年代初。 A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died. 一个绿色拇指的人似乎具有魔幻的触感，使植物迅速生长。 您可能会说，如果您的花园在您的植物死后很长时间，隔壁的女人的拇指却是绿色的。 The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs. 绿色革命是几年前给出的新型大米和其他谷物的名称。 新植物生产了更大的农作物。 绿色革命是绿色拇指的农业科学家努力工作的结果。 Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, jealousy. The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."绿色也是描述强大情感，嫉妒的颜色。 绿眼睛的怪物不是外太空的可怕生物。 这是大约四百年前英国作家威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）在他的戏剧《奥赛罗》中使用的表达。 It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not. 它描述了一个人在某人想要的东西时的不愉快感觉。 如果他的女友开始和别人出去，一个年轻人可能会遭受绿眼睛的怪物。 或者，如果您得到加薪，那绿眼睛的怪物可能会影响您的朋友，而她却不会。 In most places in the world, a green light is a sign to move ahead. A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech, a green light means approval to continue with a project. We want you to know we have a green light to continue this series next week. 在世界上大多数地方，绿灯是前进的标志。 交通信号上的绿灯意味着您的汽车可以继续进行。 在日常演讲中，绿灯意味着要继续进行项目的批准。 我们希望您知道我们有一个绿灯可以下周继续本系列。