1HOLIDAYa holiday taken by two people who have just got married 蜜月
on your honeymoon
We went to Italy on our honeymoon.
我们去了意大利度蜜月。
2 (also honeymoon period)POPULAR the period of time when a new government, leader etc has just started and no one criticizes them 〔新政府、新领导人等上任初期的〕和谐时期,蜜月期
By 1987, the honeymoon was over.
到1987年,蜜月期已经过去。
Examples from the Corpus
honeymoon• The Maldives is a populardestination for honeymooncouples.• Still, for a primeminister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory, these are unhappy days.• Where are you going on honeymoon?• We're thinking of going to Barbados for our honeymoon.• We had our honeymoon in Majorca.• We came to Paris on our honeymoon, and fell in love with the place.• I haven't had a holiday for ten years, not since our honeymoon.• As he tries to deal with them, he may find that his political honeymoon is over.• Soon enough, just as the saying goes, the honeymoon is over.• The couple were determined their honeymoon should be too, despite equaldetermination on behalf of the world's press to keep them company.
on your honeymoon• Both are in the early stages of ecstasy, and we are to understand that they are on their honeymoon.• Charlotte Bronte and her husband did not, alas, attend Killead PresbyterianChurchon their honeymoon.• She was certainly not going to cryon her honeymoon.• When we took off to the Ozarks on our honeymoon, I was never happier in my life.• Is she as sadon her honeymoon as she seems?• Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920.• Rangka would not be migrating this year because he was on his honeymoon.• Culottes and ethnicjumpers, which she wore on her honeymoon, flooded the shops.
honeymoon was over• When their short honeymoon was over Edward would take her to live at Beckwith Farm, in Arendale.• By 1987, the honeymoon was over.• Especially in the beginning the managers felt that their subordinates were actively testing them: The honeymoon was over.• The honeymoon was over and behind them.• The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn.
honeymoon• The femaleprosecutor is honeymooning and is not scheduled to return to her office until May 13.• While they were honeymooning at the Brevoort House, Thomas called on them, alone.• Paul Ramada, where they honeymooned for several days on a package deal.• She was to honeymoon in Paris.• They're honeymooning in Vermont.
Originhoneymoon
(1500-1600)honey + moon; because the moon appears to get smaller, like the love of some newly married people
ADJECTIVE | VERB + HONEYMOON | HONEYMOON + VERB | HONEYMOON + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤brief, short時間短的蜜月◇We had a brief honeymoon in Paris.我們在巴黎度過了短暫的蜜月。➤long長長的蜜月▸➤second第二次蜜月◇After so many years of marriage, we're planning a second honeymoon.結婚這麼多年了,我們正打算去重溫蜜月。VERB + HONEYMOON➤go on, have, leave for, spend度蜜月◇They go on honeymoon the day after the wedding. (BrE) 婚禮後的第二天他們去度蜜月。◇They go on their honeymoon the day after the wedding. (NAmE) 婚禮後的第二天他們去度蜜月。HONEYMOON + VERB➤be over (usuallyfigurative) 蜜月完結;要開始正視現實◇The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn.“蜜月期”結束了,她攬的事情的真實情況開始明朗起來。HONEYMOON + NOUN➤couple新婚夫婦▸➤suite蜜月套房➤cruise蜜月郵輪之旅▸➤period, phase (NAmE, bothfigurative) 新鮮勁兒◇There was always a honeymoon period when my father started a new job.我父親每開始一份新工作總會有一陣新鮮勁兒。PREPOSITION➤for a honeymoon為度蜜月◇They can't decide where to go for their honeymoon.他們無法決定去哪兒度蜜月。➤on honeymoon在度蜜月◇While on honeymoon in Bali, she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘島度蜜月時學會了戴水肺潛水。