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单词 for the time being
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for the time being
b. for the time being (formerly also †for time being): (in office, etc.) for the present time; during the period under consideration; until some other arrangement is made. Cf. sense 2.
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the world > time > period > [adverb] > during the period under consideration
for the time being1449
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > for the time being
for the timec1390
for the time being1449
for present1559
for the present1559
presently1593
for the moment1754
1449 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) I. 124 The Wardenes for the tyme beynge shalle yerly suffre the grapis..to hange Stylle and rype.
1458 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 225 The covent of the priore..for the tyme beyng, and thair successours.
1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 510 Provided..that neither this Acte nor noon other Acte..be hurtyng or prejudiciall to the Dean for tyme beyng of the Kynges free Chapell.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxii. 257 The kynges of Englande for the tyme beynge.
1642 in N. B. Shurtleff Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) II. 30 Together with the teaching elders of the sixe next adioyning townes..and the president of the colledge for the time being.
1661 G. Wither Improvem. Imprisonment 51 In Execution to be put, by all Whom, for time being, God shall please to call To be his Prophets.
1713 I. Newton Let. (1976) VI. 51 We are humbly of opinion..that the Master & Worker for the time being, be charged & discharged by his Note.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 341 Where there is a gift to the elder son in terms which would carry it to the eldest for the time being.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Philip I. vii. 130 The two poor sisters had had to..be warm, cool, moderate, freezing, according to their husbands' state for the time being.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliii. 440 It's human nature—human nature in grief. It don't reason, you see. 'Time being, it don't care a dam.
1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. i. 13 Communist Russia, true to her semi-Oriental ancestry, has for the time being rejected Theism.
1977 J. Crosby Company of Friends xx. 127 The pilot's one of ours—for the time being.
2007 New Yorker 4 June 80/1 True, for the time being it exists only on paper, as a vague promise.
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