英语词汇make hay while the sun shines的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	make hay while the sun shines
词源	make hay while the sun shines. Sun is the best and cheapest way to dry grass for fodder, and this proverb thus reminds us to take full advantage of any opportunity before it passes. “When the sunne shinth make hay,” John Heywood wrote in his All the Proverbes in the English Tongue (1546), and the saying has been a common one ever since.
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