| 释义 |
abuilding, adv. and pred. a., prop. phr. Now chiefly U.S.|əˈbɪldɪŋ|
[f. a prep.1 12 (= on) + building vbl. n.; often construed as quasi-pres. pple.]
Being built.
1535,a1665[see build v. 7]. 1884N.E.D. s.v. a prep.1 12. 1939 V. Woolf Diary 15 Apr. (1984) V. 215 Noises & houses abuilding oppress. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) viii. 111 The Fortune had been eighteen months a-building already. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 22/3 Muskie organizations are functioning full-throttle in eleven states and abuilding in 22 more. 1981Sci. Amer. Dec. 61/1 A comprehensive theory of cancer causation was abuilding last spring. |