| 单词 | in one's time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin one's time a. Usually with possessive. The period during which a person or thing lives, occupies a particular position, is active in a particular sphere, exercises influence or dominance, etc.; (sometimes) spec. the lifetime of a person or animal. Also: one's lifetime up to the present (esp. in in one's time).life's time: see life n. Compounds 4b. 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 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxviii. 417 Uton we beon carfulle þæt ure tima mid idelnysse ne losie. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) Pref. 175 His tima ne bið na langsum, for ðan ðe godes grama hine fordeð. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 39 Behoueþ to charite on alle ðines liues time michel embeþanc of þohtes and of wordes and of werkes. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 28 (MED) It was a king bi are dawes, That in his time were gode lawes. a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 19 Sum while in ys time he wes a modi knyht In huerte. 1372 in E. Wilson Descriptive Index Lyrics John of Grimestone's Preaching Bk. (1973) 26 To tellen of is time neuer no man kan. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 286 (MED) I curide in my tyme ij men þat weren in aschite of hoot cause. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 12159 (MED) My husband þat heyght Obedias..in his tyme to god was trew; now is he ded. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cii[i]. 15 That a man in his tyme is but as is grasse. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 16 Of this sort euere thyng hes ane tyme. 1577 in Exch. Rolls Scotl. (1899) XX. 373 In the resyngnatioun, to hymself [and] his wyf, for their tym. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 142 One man in his time playes many parts. View more context for this quotation 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 55 I am older then Saturn, and the whole time of this Universe. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. 66/2 In the vast Variety of Business, through which he Raced in his time, he met with many and mighty Injuries. 1775 W. Boutcher Treat. Forest-trees vii. 55 The fashions change, and many beautiful plants, as well as other things, have been out and in during my time. 1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 133/2 The foul sluggard's comfort: ‘It will last my time’.. . It will last thy time: thy worthless sham of an existence. 1898 Daily News 12 Mar. 6/3 Miss Farren has, indeed, played many parts in her time. 1901 T. P. Ollason Mareel 10 I never enjoyed a veesit ta Lerrick sae muckle i' me time. 1911 R. Brooke Poems 28 They were dead. They did not know it. They did not know their time was done. 1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing (1979) iv. 43 Just put it this way, in my time I've been to bed with well over a hundred women. 2009 P. T. Deutermann Nightwalkers 33 During my time I'd put more than one bad guy away, but so had all of us. < as lemmas |
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