Now the VOA Special English Program Words And Their Stories.
Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.
Sometimes the word green means young fresh and growing.
Sometimes it describes something that is not yet right or finished. For example, a green-horn is someone who has no experience, who is new to the situation.
In the 15th century, a green-horn was a young craw or ox whose horn has not yet developed. A century so later, a green-horn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle.
By the 18th century, a green-horn had the meaning it has today. A person who is new in the job.
About 100 years ago, green-horn was a popular expression, in the American West. Old timer use it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of big cities back East. The green-horn lack the skill he was need to live in the hard raf country.
Someone, to has the ability to grow plants well ,is said to have a greenson. The expression comes from early 1900s. a person with the greenson seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a greenson. If her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The green revolution is the name given some years ago, to the development of new kinds of rice and other greens.
The new plants produced much larger crops. The green revolution was resulted of hard work by agricultural scientists who had greensons .
Green is also the color used to describe a powerful emotion energy. The green-eyed monster is not a fredny crches from outer space. It is an expression used 400 years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play a Fillon. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has , when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster, if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else, or that green-eyed monster may effect you friend, if you get pyrite and she does not.
In most places in the world, a green light is signed to move head. A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech a green light means a proful to continue with the project. We want you to know we have green light to continue the series next week.
This VOA Special English Program Words And Their Stories, was written by Marilin Crisjibo. I am Worry sheer. |