拍到一張英文 “成語（慣用語）”

英語 idiom ::::: Silver lining -- 常被翻譯為“一線希望”，形容樂觀的事態或“看似不好的事情也會有好的一麵”等等，源自英文的“Every cloud has a silver lining./每塊烏雲後都有一線明亮的銀色（襯裏）”。

這個慣用語的使用可追溯到十九世紀。我查到的幾個例子如下：

• 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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