【字面理解】在年輕的肩膀上有顆年老的頭
【英文解析】It’s used to describe a young person who acts in a more sensible way than you would expect for a person of their age.
【中文解析】年輕而有見識;少年老成
【典型例句】① He’s only seventeen, but he has an old head on young shoulders and remains calm under pressure. 他只有17歲,不過卻少年老成,面對壓力沉著冷靜。
② That man would do this job very well, for he clearly has m old head on young shoulders.那人雖年輕卻很有頭 腦,能把工作干得很好。
【注釋】源自莎士比亞的戲劇《威尼斯商人》(TheMerchant of Venice) : I never knew so young a body with so old a head.(蓋如此少年老成之士,實鄙人生平所僅見也。)