| 单词 | as times go |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas (the) times go f. as (the) times go: as things are in these times; according to current standards. Now rare. ΚΠ 1629 in N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent (ed. 2) 847 As the times goe now, he that knowes not how to make no shewe of what hee meanes..is much more ignorant how to play the Pope. 1632 H. More tr. G. Piatti Happines Relig. State i. xxxvi. 188 Secular Lay-people, as times go now adayes, either runne headlong into al manner of vice, or..think they do wel enough if they abstayne from sinne. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 298. ⁋3 Persons, of tolerable Figure too as Times go. 1765 G. Colman tr. Terence Andrian i. i, in tr. Terence Comedies 11 He rul'd his life By prudent maxims: for, as times go now, Compliance raises friends, and truth breeds hate. 1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 16 ‘How goes it, Joe?’ ‘Pretty well, as times go.’ 1891 H. Nisbet Colonial Tramp I. 101 ‘Johnny’ in Victoria is a model of cleanliness and industry, and as the times go, honest also. 1939 N.Y. Times 6 May 2/7 As times go we must not enter into treaties with a single power or group of powers. 1953 D. S. Brewer Chaucer 186 Chaucer, an old man as the times went, and with a lifelong association with the House of Lancaster, acquiesced in the change. < as lemmas |
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