| 单词 | in the course of things |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the course of things (c) in the course of things: according to normal or customary procedure, to be expected, in the natural or expected progress of events; after a period of time. Π 1685 S. Patrick Paraphr. Eccles. (viii. 7) 206 in Paraphr. Eccles. & Song of Sol. For no man can be sure that the like opportunity will return again: future things being so much in the dark, that neither he, nor any one else can inform him what shall be hereafter; or when that will come, which in the course of things may probably be expected. a1729 S. Clarke Sermons (1730) X. vii. 165 The natural Punishment therefore of a licentious and unbridled Tongue, is the Inconveniencies it is very apt to bring, in the course of things, upon the Person himself. 1793 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 250/2 It is in the course of things..for states to shake from their foundations, when religion and law begin to fall into disrepute. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 6 In the course of things men of other ideas came to rule. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 6 The clansmen became tenants, and the chiefs, in the course of things, sold them out. 2015 Y. Toropov Jihadi (2016) xxii. 117 [He] ended up missing four straight days of work... He had warned each staff member privately that such an absence was possible, that this was in the course of things. < as lemmas |
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