| 单词 | in one's lifetime |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (during, etc.) one's lifetime 1. The duration of a person's (animal's, etc.) life; the period of time over which a person's life extends. Frequently in adverbial phrase in (during, etc.) one's lifetime. See also a legend in one's (own) lifetime at legend n. 7a, once in a lifetime at once adv., conj., adj., and n. Phrases 10. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 514 Wu laȝelike ȝe [sc. ðe turtre] holdeð luue al hire lif-time. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 999 I graunt him greþli..mi loue for euer al mi lif time. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 251 Alle these forsayd thynges trewelych for to kepe..alle his lyf time. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaij In hys lyfe tyme by hys owne marcial affayres. c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1925) I. i. l. 2760 Neuer his lif-tyme to that day Was he chaissit out of ane stour. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. viii. §571. 248 Cause them to be given or delivered unto them in their live times. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 80 Unless they..restore..them to their favour in their life-time. 1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 41 None of these books are to be printed in my life-time. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. iv. 48 If there were one of those friends whose lifetime was twisted with your own, I am enough of a fatalist to feel assured that [etc.]. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 183 A lifetime might be passed happily in such pursuits. 1925 W. Williams in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 (1926) 46 For half his lifetime he had been an undefeated fencing champion, also victor in a dozen duels. 1963 W. Blunt Of Flowers & Village 46 The japonica has had no less than five different names during my lifetime. 2007 B. Kingsolver Animal, Veg., Miracle viii. 114 In my lifetime Kentucky farmers have mostly had the options of going broke, or going six ways to Sunday for the sake of staying solvent. < as lemmas |
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