| 单词 | fromto |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom..to b. from..to: used with repeated noun to denote successive changes of place; from one —— to another. See also from pillar to post, from place to place, from post to pillar. ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlix. 383 Se ðe Godes ðegn sie,..do his sweord to his hype, & gað from geate to geate ðurh midde ða ceastre, & ofslea ælc mon his broður. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 65 Leaden him i cure up o fowr hweoles & teon him ȝeonte tun þron from strete to strete. c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) l. 361 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 299 Þerl flei fram tre to tre. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (1872) Prol. l. 547 For to walke..ffrom hous to hous to here sondry tales. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 818/2 From towne to towne, de ville en ville. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 24 When ye exhalation is driuen from side to side, of ye cloude. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E2v To beg their breade from doore to doore. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 262 How often the body of Saint Augustine was tost from porch to pillar. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 5 From vale to vale, from wood to wood, he flew. 1849 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. I. 215 Xavier's name was repeated from mouth to mouth with cries of vengeance. 1948 J. S. Weiner in New Biol. 5 70 Their [sc. apes'] ability to brachiate, that is to swing their way from branch to branch by their arms. 2001 My Business May 62/1 The nature of the service industry is that people tend to move from job to job. from..to b. from..to, used with repeated noun to denote succession or recurrence at regular intervals; from one —— to another.See also from day to day, from month to month, from time to time, from week to week, from year to year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > succeeding, following, or after [preposition] > from... to... (denoting succession) from‥toc1325 OE Ælfric 2nd Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 178 Healdað forðy..þonne haligan Cristes lichaman..to seocum mannum fram sunnandæge to sunnandæge on swiþe clænum boxcse. c1330 Lai le Freine in Smith Coll. Stud. Mod. Langs. (1929) 10 iii. 7 (MED) Þis Frein þriued fram ȝer to ȝer; Þe abbesse nece men wend it were. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 3 A table of the verray Moeuyng of the Mone from howre to howre. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 808/2 From hour to hour, de heure en heure. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 26 And so from houre to houre, we ripe, and ripe. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (5 Edw. IV) 37 On paine of two pence a man from moneth to other. 1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli State France in Wks. 259 Having received a new policy from three months to three months. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 63. ¶1 The Thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time. 1790 W. Cowper Stanzas for Year He who sits from day to day Where the prisoned lark is hung. 1848 J. D. Morell On Philos. Tendencies of Age iii. 125 A primitive revelation, which has been perpetuated from age to age..to the present time. 1958 Science 26 Dec. 1620/3 The ability of some of them to change color from minute to minute. 1984 Philos. Sci. 51 54 How does it come to pass that macro-properties are relatively constant from moment to moment? 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xiii. 384 Rain is unpredictable from year to year within a decade, and is even more unpredictable from decade to decade. from..to c. from..to, with repeated noun of time, denoting regular recurrence; as from day to day, from time to time, from month to month. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > antecedence [preposition] > until > from... to... from‥toOE OE Wulfstan Sermo ad Anglos (Nero) 156 For folces synnan fram dæge to dæge. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 505 Fram daye to daye hii dude the mansinge. c1325 Lai le Freine 229 This Frein thriued fram yer to yer. 1423 Acts Privy Council III. 88 Ye desire to be acertained fro tyme to tyme of oure prosperite and welfare. 1483 Cath. Angl. 88 From Day to day, die in diem, in dies, dietim. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 808/2 From hour to hour, de heure en heure. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. I8 From daye to daye you haue beane worse. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 26 And so from houre to houre, we ripe, and ripe. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 19 To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creepes in this petty pace from day to day. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (5 Edw. IV) 37 On paine of two pence a man from moneth to other. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xl. 255 From thence proceeded from time to time the civill troubles..of the Nation. 1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli State France in Wks. 259 Having received a new policy from three months to three months. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 63. ¶1 The Thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 445. ¶3 Whether I should still persist in laying my Speculations, from Day to Day, before the Publick. 1790 W. Cowper Stanzas for Year He who sits from day to day Where the prisoned lark is hung. 1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 18 July 136/1 The passage..was used only from time to time, and not continuously. 1895 A. F. Warr in Law Times 99 547/1 The..examination is in special books set from time to time. < as lemmas |
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