| 单词 | is not to be |
| 释义 | > as lemmas—— is (also was, etc.) not to be e. —— is (also was, etc.) not to be: (an event) is (was, etc.) not destined to come about. ΚΠ 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. x. 188 The quiet, the retirement of such a life, would have answered all my ideas of happiness! But it was not to be . View more context for this quotation 1835 Athenaeum 3 Jan. 4/2 But it warnt to be. 1938 C. L. R. James Black Jacobins xii. 230 He and Laveaux would have worked out a modus vivendi whereby French capital would have had full opportunity in the island. It was not to be. Leclerc pooh-poohed Malenfant's remonstrances and dismissed him. 1957 H. J. Eysenck Sense & Nonsense in Psychol. (1961) 63 However, this was not to be. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 323 But no, it was not to be, for at that moment a dark shadow fell across the world. < as lemmas |
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