| 释义 |
bimeby, adv. dial.|ˈbaɪmbaɪ|
Also bimby(e, bimebye, bymeby, etc.
Reduced form of by and by A. 4.
[1549[see by and by A. 4]. 1708Deplorable State of New Eng. 35 Altho'..one Day it was voted, That the Fort should be attack'd, it was by 'nd by, unvoted again. ]1722in O. E. Winslow Broadside Verse (1930) 115/2 Indian bimeby take Captain Westbrook's fort. 1824Nantucket Inquirer 5 Jan. (Th.), Well, bimeby he took notion to hab my daughter... Well, bimeby I found em out. 1825J. Jennings Obs. Dial. West of Eng. 26 Bimeby, by-and-by; some time hence. 1825etc. [see by and by A. 4]. 1850‘N. Hogg’ Lett. in Devonshire Dial. (ed. 2) 6 Bim-bye, in com'd a wacking hoss. 1857J. G. Holland Bay-Path xiv. 156 It's a thing that'll come round byme-by. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age ii. 32 But bymeby she roused up like, and looked around wild. 1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. vii. 64, I s'pose everybody all over the world 'll know our patter bimeby. 1907E. Wharton Fruit of Tree i. ii. 27 A small boy who said breathlessly: ‘Mr. Truscomb wants you to come down bimeby.’ 1952Amer. Speech XXVI. 26 Common expressions in the pidgin of Hawaii are..bimeby (by-and-by), wasamatta (what's the matter?), [etc.]. |