拍到一张英文 “成语（惯用语）”

英语 idiom ::::: Silver lining -- 常被翻译为“一线希望”，形容乐观的事态或“看似不好的事情也会有好的一面”等等，源自英文的“Every cloud has a silver lining./每块乌云后都有一线明亮的银色（衬里）”。

这个惯用语的使用可追溯到十九世纪。我查到的几个例子如下：

• 1881, National Academy of Code Administration (U.S.), Folio, page 417:

  Every cloud has a silver lining; but in the old-fashioned meeting-houses every cloud of hymnal melody generally had a nasal lining before the congregation...
  
  
  

• 1887, Shakers, Religion, page 36:

  that "a little reserve and thou'lt fail surely," will prove to be true in our experience. Every cloud has a silver lining and so has every sorrow.
  
  

• 1918, George Jean Nathan, Performing Arts, page 222:

  But the most popular attitude toward what we may call "sad" plays is the peculiar one of believing that, since every cloud has a silver lining.
  
  
  
  
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