| 释义 |
ˈsomeday, adv.
[f. some a.1 2 + day n.]
At some future time. Cf. day n. 7 b.
Earlier examples of some day as a two-word phrase will be found s.v. some a. 2 b (b).
1898G. B. Shaw Candida i, in Plays Pleasant 94 Theyll ave to give you somethink someday, if it's honly to stop yore mouth. 1902W. B. Yeats Cathleen ni Hoolihan 13 220 We might be put in the way of making Patrick a priest someday, and he so good at his books. 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 221 Something or other must make an end of you someday. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 119 A tea anyway for a tryst someday. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. i. 110 He could almost see the husband which she would someday have. 1958[see Murphy2 3]. 1966Punch 24 Aug. 294 Won't someday a three-minute montage provide a more significant aesthetic treat than a sonnet? 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. July/Aug. 31/3 It will clutch at a heart it did not seem to know, and someday die. |