| 词汇 | true love never runs smooth |
| 词源 | true love never runs smooth. Strictly speaking, the saying is the course of true love never did run smooth, and it is from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595), in which (act I, scene I) Lysander consoles Hermia with the words. The young couple do finally overcome the resistance of Hermia’s fa- ther and the Duke of Athens and are wed. |
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