单词 | eleventh-hour |
释义 | > as lemmaseleventh-hour a. That comes next in order to the tenth. eleventh hour: the latest possible time, in allusion to the parable of the labourers (Matthew xx.); also eleventh-hour used attributively or as an adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > eleven > eleventh eleventh971 levenc1480 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > the last minute the last minute1567 eleventh hour1829 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] > last-minute eleventh hour1870 971 Blickl. Hom. 93 Eall eorþe bið mid þeostrum oforþeaht æt þa endlyftan tid þæs dæges. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 6 Ða embe þa endlyftan tide he uteode. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Endleofte unþeau is folc beo butan steore. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 414 Þe enlefte day of heruest. a1300 Cursor Mundi 22627 Þe signe o þe dai elleft, It es na skil þat it be left. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4798 Þe ellevend day men sal com out Of caves. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xix. 357 The enleuenth month is Nouembre. a1400 Coer de L. 2455 The unleventhe day they saylyd in tempest. 1489 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 78 Aleffant day of moneth of March. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xvii According vnto the eleuen conclusion. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 10 Wpoun the ellewint day of July, &c. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 2 In th' eleuenth yere of ye last Kings reign. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 60 Come the eleventh Plague, rather than this should be. 1829 R. Southey All for Love i. 11 Tho' at the eleventh hour Thou hast come to serve our Prince of Power. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Let. 17 Mar. (1965) II. 820 But I am getting into that mistrustful state which 11th hour work is sure to engender. 1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 230 So, in response to John's eleventh-hour prayers, he did what he could. 1904 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/4 An eleventh-hour alteration in the arrangements for the return of Queen Alexandra from Copenhagen. 1966 Listener 1 Dec. 810/2 To commit a boy to preparing for either..examination..deprives the eleventh-hour developer of a chance of an award. < as lemmas |
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