| 单词 | in the event |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the event P2. in the event: (with reference to past events) as it turned out; (also sometimes with reference to events in the present or the near future) as it turns out, as it happens. ΚΠ 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 372/2 We go this day where you shall not dare to come nere the tayle of my horse, as in the euent it proued true. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 4 Too much indulgence..is a cruell loue in the euent. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 91 But all his plans deceived him, and in the event became his overthrow. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. ii. 286 They openly, and in the event, successfully resisted the installation of the new prelate. 1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster II. xviii. 126 A woman who, by acknowledging a faith in which her conscience forbade her to engage, might make her lover happy, and, perhaps in the event, lead him to her own Church. 1937 G. M. Trevelyan Grey of Fallodon ii. 126 The Germans were building a fleet that in the event proved dangerously near a match for our own at Jutland. 2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) xxxiii. 415 In the event, they were overwhelmed by rain. < as lemmas |
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