单词 | it is gone |
释义 | > as lemmasit is (also has) gone —— d. intransitive. Indicating that the present time or time in question is (just) later than a specified time. Frequently (and earliest) in it is (also has) gone ——.In early use with implicit reference to clock strikes (see sense 11e). ΚΠ 1838 A. M. Hall Lights & Shadows Irish Life I. 308 Whin I pulled them [sc. shirts] out of the tub this morning—it was gone six, for the days do be getting short. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 19 Don't you know church begins at two, and it's gone half after one a'ready? 1890 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 420 It was now gone midnight. 1900 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 499/2 When it was gone noon, Beaufoy bid the woodmen set the brush afire. 1921 T. Maynard Divine Adventure 64 It's gone half past twelve o'clock. 1947 D. Thomas Let. 30 June (1987) 647 It has just gone midday; I'm writing in my pyjamas, in a shuttered room. 1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 1/2 We spent from ten in the morning until gone three in the afternoon clearing the area. 2008 G. Brandreth Oscar Wilde & Game called Murder xiii. 168 Sickert..looked up at the station clock. ‘Gone five,’ he said. < as lemmas |
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