| 释义 |
noon-time Now rare.
[f. noon n. + time.]
= noontide. Also fig. and as adv., noontimes U.S., at mid-day.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 278 Antony a dayes about none tyme, Had a bridde that brouȝte hym bred. a1400–50Alexander 563 Fra þe none tyme Till it to mydday was meten. a1450Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 19 Mony poyl fysche wyl bytte beste yn none tyme.
1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 371/2 At noontime all Germans had assembled. 1938T. Wilder Our Town 11 Quarter of nine mornings, noontimes, and three o'clock afternoon's, the hull town can hear the yelling and screaming from those schoolyards. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris i. 3, I concluded that he was posting the Dove bills noontimes, on a volunteer basis. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1036/3 The noon-time of the genre [sc. the musical] was over. |