【One Idiom】Salad days,green in judgement

"Salad days" is a Shakespearean idiomatic expression that means a youthful time, a period of carefree innocence, idealism and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a heyday, a period when somebody was at the peak of their abilities, not necessarily in their youth.

Queen Elizabeth II used the phrase during her Silver Jubilee royal address in 1977, referring to her vow to God and her people when she made her 21st birthday broadcast: "Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it."

Here is her words of the vow:

I declare before you all that my whole life. Whether it be long or short,shall be devoted to your service, to our great imperial family, to which we all belong.

Here is her image and voice:

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• 花帥是女王迷喔。有啥文獻是展示她真實的自我的？ -kirn- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 08:55:39

• 我幾天前帖過一個她的家庭視頻，1個多小時，從出生到她登基，估計不會有人去看，這就是其中一段 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 10:00:42

• 以後我再截出一些其它有意思的片段 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 10:01:49

• 讚一個！學習啦！是1947年，不是1977吧？ -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 09:13:23

• 兩個都有，21歲是她發誓的話，51歲是背景聲音，那句idiom引用是77年說的 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 09:47:14

• "Salad days" is a Shakespearean idiomatic expression 和女王陛下很搭 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 09:52:12

• 女王的子民 讚倆個：） -忒忒綠- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 11:48:00

• 我剛覺得自己不是共產主義事業接班人了， -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 13:17:55

• 花帥厲害。我看完了整個視頻。但不知道這個Idiom。My salad days were gone. -天邊一片白雲- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 15:01:27

• 看到一個貌似不能直譯的用法必定是個idiom, 搜了一下什麽意思才發現大有來頭，她講話很激勵人。 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 15:45:31

• 我一向覺得小女孩嬰兒時期比男孩更可愛，這是另外一小段她女兒Anne剛出生時影象，簡直可愛S了， -移花接木- ♂ (194 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 15:49:17

• 好cute。你居然把整個視頻都下載了？ -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 18:52:02

• 看了一遍後，記住幾個關鍵事件，具體沒記住，想做幾個貼， 幹脆下載了 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/18/2022 postreply 19:13:47

• 你那個視頻，我邊做飯邊看了些片段。女王真是很有責任感自律和謙卑的人。她兒子就沒有那種平和。郭晶晶也有這種平和所以招人喜歡 -jianchi9090- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/19/2022 postreply 16:55:10

• 恭喜花董。首頁進來，謝謝網管，【One Idiom】Salad days,green in judgement 推薦成功 -梅雨潭- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/20/2022 postreply 15:06:10