英语词汇the world is my oyster的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the world is my oyster
词源	the world is my oyster. All the pleasures and opportunities of life are open to someone because he is young, rich, hand- some, successful, etc. Shakespeare invented or popularized this expression in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600): Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why, then, the world’s mine oyster which I with sword will open.
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