单词 | it fortunes |
释义 | > as lemmasit fortunes b. impersonal it fortunes = it happens or befalls. Const. with clause; also to, with (a person) or with dative object. Also with omission of it. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [phrase] > it happens wendeOE it fortunes?1462 ?1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 100 It so fortuned your seid besecher cowd not performe the seid apoyntement. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xvii Hit fortuned me that I was a slepe in the wyndowe. c1500 Melusine (1895) xxiii. 156 Sith it hath fortuned thus with me. c1510 Gesta Romanorum (de Worde) Add. Stories ii. 431 It fortuned after..yt he gaue batayll. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. G How fortunes that he came not? 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII (1885) 172 It so fortuned, that he was taken by pirates at sea. 18.. J. R. Lowell Dara in Poet. Wks. (1879) 378 When it fortuned that a king more wise Endued the realm with brain and hands and eyes. 1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (Lady Burton's ed.) I. i. 14 So it fortuneth that I am toiling..while thou takest thine ease. < as lemmas |
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