| 单词 | a world of time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa world of time P22. a world of time: a vast extent of time; an age, an eternity. Similarly a world of years (also †worlds of years). [Compare Middle French, French un monde d'ans (1562 in the passage translated in quot. 1601).] ΚΠ 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. D3v What a worlde of tyme, Is it for me to lie as in a sounde, Without my life. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiv. i. 404 Yet continued it hath a world of yeares [Fr. vn monde d'ans, L. tot aevis] uncorrupt. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 2 Forgetfull of all other things in their antient countrey, after so many worlds of yeeres. 1620 F. Quarles Pentelogia N4 Seruing a world of yeeres. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 315 I took up a World of time in Considering of this Matter. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 407 It'll take a world of time to do it. 1994 L. Owens Bone Game (1996) x. 57 She has plunged him back to that moment of decision a world of years before when it was she whom he cast off before he could even know. 2004 N. Ayo Times of Grace 13 Though it may take a world of time to become a new heaven and new earth,..yet we believe such an evening glory has been promised in the end. < as lemmas |
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