英语词汇“i may long enough”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. colloquial. I (also you, etc.) may (do something) long enough and variants: expressing the idea that the stated action will achieve nothing. Usually with following clause introduced by before, †ere. Now rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > despair [verb (intransitive)] > act without hope of result

I (also you, etc.) may (do something) long enough1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 616/2 I may do a thing longe ynough, which sayeng we use whan we signyfye our labour to be in vayne... Thou maye krye longe ynough: tu as beau braire.

1580 T. Lupton Siuqila (new ed.) 114 The poore man may go vp and downe long ynoughe, ere the Attorneys or Lawyers will flocke aboute him.

1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra ii. 17 If anie haue a wil to seeke Diamonds among flowers, he may seeke long enough ere he find them.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 318 If I should ask him what the Attic Dialect was in Homer's time, I might stay long enough before he could tell me.

1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. 82 I may gape long enough before it [sc. preferment] falls into my Mouth.

1790 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1067/2 Memory..might be ransacked long enough, before a Word would present itself so nervously descriptive of the Poet's Meaning.

1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts vi. 42 She may sit and blow the fire, long enough before she finds sixpence in the ashes.

1871 R. Browning Hervé Riel xi, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 260 Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank; You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel.

1934 R. Flower tr. T. O'Crohan Islandman v. 59 You'd wait long enough before you found a hen's nest, or a cock's nest either, on the roof of a slated house.

单词	i may long enough
释义	> as lemmas I (also you, etc.) may (do something) long enough b. colloquial. I (also you, etc.) may (do something) long enough and variants: expressing the idea that the stated action will achieve nothing. Usually with following clause introduced by before, †ere. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > despair [verb (intransitive)] > act without hope of result I (also you, etc.) may (do something) long enough1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 616/2 I may do a thing longe ynough, which sayeng we use whan we signyfye our labour to be in vayne... Thou maye krye longe ynough: tu as beau braire. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila (new ed.) 114 The poore man may go vp and downe long ynoughe, ere the Attorneys or Lawyers will flocke aboute him. 1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra ii. 17 If anie haue a wil to seeke Diamonds among flowers, he may seeke long enough ere he find them. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 318 If I should ask him what the Attic Dialect was in Homer's time, I might stay long enough before he could tell me. 1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. 82 I may gape long enough before it [sc. preferment] falls into my Mouth. 1790 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1067/2 Memory..might be ransacked long enough, before a Word would present itself so nervously descriptive of the Poet's Meaning. 1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts vi. 42 She may sit and blow the fire, long enough before she finds sixpence in the ashes. 1871 R. Browning Hervé Riel xi, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 260 Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank; You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel. 1934 R. Flower tr. T. O'Crohan Islandman v. 59 You'd wait long enough before you found a hen's nest, or a cock's nest either, on the roof of a slated house. extracted from longadv.¹ < as lemmas
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