1. As good luck would have it
意思：幸运的是。现在这个表达通常简略成 as luck would have it。
Origin: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1600
Falstaff: You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
出处：1600年《温莎的风流娘们儿》
福斯塔夫：您听我说下去。总算我命中有救，来了一位培琪大娘，报告我们福德就要来了的消息；福德家的女人吓得毫无主意，只好听了她的计策，把我装进一只盛脏衣服的篓子里去。
2. The game is afoot
意思：过程正在进行。例句：球队都到位了，哨声响起，游戏已经开始了。
Origin: King Henry IV, 1597
"Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip."
出处：1597年《亨利四世》："事情还没有动手，你总是这样冒冒失失地泄露了机密。"
3. Neither a borrower nor a lender be
意思：不要借债，也不要放贷。
Origin: Hamlet, 1602
Lord Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
出处：1602年《哈姆雷特》
波洛涅斯：不要向人告贷，也不要借钱给人；因为债款放了出去，往往不但丢了本钱，而且还失去了朋友；向人告贷的结果，容易养成因循懒惰的习惯。
4. Fair play
意思：游戏规则合理，每个参与者机会平等。除了游戏之外，根据语境，比较普遍的意思是公平公正。
Origin: Shakespeare coined this phrase and used it in several of his plays; for example, The Tempest, 1610.
Miranda: Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. And I would call it, fair play.
出处：莎士比亚创造了这个词组，并且在多部戏剧中使用。比如1610年《暴风雨》。
米兰达：我说你作弄我；可是就算你并吞了我二十个王国，我还是认为这是一场公正的游戏。
The term migrated into "fair dinkum", which is well-known as an Australian phrase. An Australian term meaning the same thing as "fair play" is the more recent "fair go".
该词组后来又演变成了fair dinkum，后者澳大利亚常用。另外，还有一个意思相同的澳大利亚英语词组fair go出现时间更晚一些。
5. Fancy free
意思：无拘无束。该词组在20世纪又多了几个单词，变成了footloose and fancy-free。
Origin: A Midsummer Nights Dream, 1598
Oberon:
That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
At a fair vestal throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
出处：1598年《仲夏夜之梦》
奥布朗：就在那个时候，你看不见，但我能看见持着弓箭的丘匹德在冷月和地球之间飞翔；他瞄准了坐在西方宝座上的一个美好的童贞女，很灵巧地从他的弓上射出他的爱情之箭，好像它能刺透十万颗心的样子。可是只见小丘匹德的火箭在如水的冷洁的月光中熄灭，那位童贞的女王心中一尘不染，沉浸在纯洁的思念中安然无恙。
6. Green-eyed monster
意思：嫉妒。
Origin: Othello, 1604
Iago:
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
出处：1604年《奥赛罗》
伊阿古：啊，主帅，您要留心嫉妒啊；那是一个绿眼的妖魔，谁做了它的牺牲，就要受它的玩弄。本来并不爱他的妻子的那种丈夫，虽然明知被他的妻子欺骗，算来还是幸福的；可是啊！一方面那样痴心疼爱，一方面又是那样满腹狐疑，这才是活活的受罪！
7. Wild goose chase
意思：白费力气的寻找，徒劳无益的追求。
Origin: Romeo and Juliet, 1592
Romeo: Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match.
Mercutio: Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five.
出处：1592年《罗密欧与朱丽叶》
罗密欧：要来就快马加鞭；不然我就宣告胜利了。
茂丘西奥：不，如果比聪明像赛马，我承认我输了；我的马儿哪有你的野？说到野，我的五官加在一起也比不上你的任何一官。
The earlier meaning related not to hunting but to horse racing. A "wild goose chase" was a chase in which horses followed a lead horse at a set distance, mimicking wild geese flying in formation. Current use of the phrase alludes to an undertaking which will probably prove to be fruitless.
以前，该词组的意思与赛马相关，与狩猎无关。Wild goose chase曾指其他马在追赶"头马"时隔着一段距离，与群雁飞翔的队形相似。现在这个词组指一项可能是徒劳无益的任务。
8. Set one's teeth on edge
字面意思是引起让人不适的牙疼。该词组用来指使人不悦、厌烦。
Origin: Henry IV, 1596
Hotspur: Marry,
And I am glad of it with all my heart:
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,
Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing poetry:
'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
出处：1596年《亨利四世》
呃，谢天谢地，我没有这种本领。我宁愿做一只小猫，向人发出喵喵的叫声；我可不愿做这种吟风弄月的卖唱者。我宁愿听一只干燥的车轮在轮轴上吱轧吱轧地磨擦；那些扭扭捏捏的诗歌，是比它更会使我的牙齿发痒的；它正像一匹小马踏着款段的细步一样装腔作势得可厌。
