English Dictionary

primrose path

名詞

婉語

An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation. / A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.

日本語の意味

快適で享楽的な生活だが、最終的には自己破滅や道を誤る可能性がある生き方。 / 魅力的に見えるが、実際には誤った選択や破滅へと導く誘惑ある生活の道筋。

After years of struggle, he was tempted by the primrose path and abandoned his plans for a steady career.

長年の苦労の末、彼は安楽で快適な生活に心を奪われ、安定した職業計画を放棄した。

意味（1）

An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation.

But, good my brother, / Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; / Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.

意味（2）

A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.

The route from the desire for rationality via the desire for objectivity to descriptivism is a well trodden one; but it is nevertheless a primrose path; for, as we shall see, it leads those who follow it into one or another form of relativism, which is precisely what these thinkers are trying to avoid. They can only avoid it by retracing their steps. This primrose path starts from the assumption that the only way to achieve rationality is to secure objectivity.

意味（3）

(euphemistic) The life of prostitution.

Even if these purely official catastrophes carried any conviction, the majority of English girls remain so poor, so dependent, so well aware that the drudgeries of such honest work as is within their reach are likely enough to lead them eventually to lung disease, premature death, and domestic desertion or brutality, that they would still see reason to prefer the primrose path to the strait path of virtue, since both, vice at worst and virtue at best, lead to the same end in poverty and overwork.

primrose paths （ plural ）