silver lining

英 [ˈsɪlvə(r) ˈlaɪnɪŋ]

美 [ˈsɪlvər ˈlaɪnɪŋ]

n.  (困境中的)一线希望

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 黑暗中总有一线光明
  If you say thatevery cloud has a silver lining, you mean that every sad or unpleasant situation has a positive side to it.
  1. As they say, every cloud has a silver lining. We have drawn lessons from the decisions taken.
     正如他们所说，黑暗中总有一线光明，我们已从所作的决定中汲取了教训。
• N-SING (困境中的)一线希望
  If you talk about asilver lining, you are talking about something positive that comes out of a sad or unpleasant situation.
  1. The fall in inflation is the silver lining of the prolonged recession.
     通货膨胀的下降是长期经济衰退中的一线转机。

英英释义

noun

• a consoling aspect of a difficult situation
  1. every cloud has a silver lining
  2. look on the bright side of it
  Synonym:bright side

双语例句

• There is one silver lining.
  不过事情仍是有一线希望的。
• There might even be a silver lining to this whole mess.
  而且，在这一片黯然中也仍有一丝光亮。
• Others look beyond the bare facts and see the silver lining.
  其他看起来超越裸露的事实，看到了一线希望。
• In the interim, is there a silver lining to ongoing US dollar weakness?
  就中期来看，目前美元汇率不断走软的局面会否出现一线曙光呢？
• At the beginning of this year, he returned to Shanghai and saw the silver lining.
  今年年初，他回到上海，看到了一丝希望。
• It takes a relentless sort of optimist to find a silver lining in the world's dark economic clouds.
  要想在世界黑暗的经济乌云中找到一线亮光，需要百折不挠的乐观精神才行。
• At first blush, this may sound a bit harsh, over-emphasizing the negative without some offsetting silver lining.
  乍一看，这可能听起来有点苛刻，在缺少对一线希望的偏移的情况下过分强调负面。
• A silver lining will be bankruptcy and restructuring, where legal fees look poised to balloon this year.
  破产和资产重组可能会带来一些希望，这些领域今年的律师费看来会激增。
• But multithreaded programming is notoriously hard to do correctly, so this limitation is not without a silver lining.
  但是众所周知，多线程编程是很容易出错的，所以这个限制并不是一点益处都没有。
• The fall in inflation is the silver lining of the prolonged recession.
  通货膨胀的下降是长期经济衰退中的一线转机。