| 单词 | a person's days are numbered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa person's days are numbered a. transitive. To fix the number of; to reduce to a definite number; (now) esp. to make few in number; to bring near to a close. Usually in passive, esp. in a person's days are numbered. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > make few [verb (transitive)] numberc1350 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxlvi. 4 (MED) Our Lord..noumbreþ þe multitude of sterres. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. v. 26 God hath noumbride thi rewme, and fulfilled it. c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale I. 218 God hath creat..no thyng with outen ordre, but alle thynges ben ordeyned and nombred. c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 64 (MED) Þou hast noumbrid my steppis; but, lord, spare þou my synnes! a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 5 (MED) Alle thyng is nombred in goddis sight, The leste tryp that euere ȝe trede. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 31 (MED) It is..vayne..to stryue with Him which noumbrith the sterres. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft v. v. 99 Man..hath his daies numbred. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. iv. 26 The Sands are numbred, that makes vp my Life. View more context for this quotation 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 131 How fanciful are the Works of Mortals! They also are numbered by the Days that Phoebus counts in his Solar Course. 1781 H. Downman Death of Caesar iii. v. 367 By th'eternal gods In their exalted sphere our days are numbered. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. iii. 55 My days are numbered—your mother-in-law is in the extremity of age, and, if I see her not to-day, we may never meet. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. x. 253 The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. 1883 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 5/3 We are told by croakers that the days of fox-hunting are numbered in these sporting islands. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 22 July 2/1 Adolf Hitler's days are numbered. His purge of 1944 is something from which his party and his army will never recover. 1984 Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Britain viii. 457 The successful use of screw-propulsion on smaller ships was numbering the days of the sailing fleet. < as lemmas |
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