英语词汇easy street的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

easy street; to live on easy street. To be well-off financially or to be rich, to live in comfortable circumstances. The earliest known reference to this expression is in 1897. A little later in 1901 it was used by American author George V. Hobart in his novel It’s Up To You, where he describes a prosperous young man who had it made and could “walk up and down Easy Street.” On easy street could, however, have some relation to the old English expression an easy road, “a road that can be traveled without discomfort or difficulty,” an expression that was used figuratively by Shakespeare.

词汇	easy street
词源	easy street; to live on easy street. To be well-off financially or to be rich, to live in comfortable circumstances. The earliest known reference to this expression is in 1897. A little later in 1901 it was used by American author George V. Hobart in his novel It’s Up To You, where he describes a prosperous young man who had it made and could “walk up and down Easy Street.” On easy street could, however, have some relation to the old English expression an easy road, “a road that can be traveled without discomfort or difficulty,” an expression that was used figuratively by Shakespeare.
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