| 单词 | as the world goes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas the (also this) world goes a. as the (also this) world goes: as things are, considering the state of affairs. Now rare and archaic. ΚΠ c1460 in R. Brotanek Mittelengl. Dichtungen MS 432 Trin. Coll. Dublin (1940) 128 Trust not..youre foos, ffor þei be double in wirking, as þe worlde gos. 1478 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 178 William Paston..paid to the parson..xxiiij li. It is yerly worth, as the world goth now—x li. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 180 To be honest as this world goes, Is to be one man pickt out of tenne thousand. View more context for this quotation 1713 A. Pope Corr. Dec. (1956) I. 198 And give me leave to tell you, that (as the world goes) this is no small assurance I repose in you. 1820 P. Sebright Coincidence II. iii. 117 Nor, as the world goes, is it to be wondered at, that there are more who are willing to talk than to hear. 1930 H. Paterson tr. W. von Molo in O. F. de Battaglia Dictatorship on its Trial i. 140 A permanent dictatorship, as this world goes, is an impossibility. 2007 C. Thomas Life & Wks. F. Schiller xix. 303 This is no very appalling crime as the world goes, and especially as the world went in the Middle Ages. < as lemmas |
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