| 单词 | much of the time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuch of the time b. With the. Used in various expressions to indicate the extent to which an action, state, etc., takes place, occurs, or endures, or has always been the case, as all the time, much of the time, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > duration [phrase] all the time1684 much of the time1879 1684 L. W. Finch in L. W. Finch et al. tr. Cornelius Nepos Lives Illustr. Men Ded. sig. a8 He is the Master of true Courage, that all the time sedately stemms the Ship. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 296. ⁋7 The Ladies..laugh immoderately all the Time. 1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 427 We try'd under a double reef'd Mainsail, great Part of the Time. 1833 A. Sutton Narr. Mission to Orissa xi. 322 The generality of the people heard well some of the time, and some of them all the time. 1879 Scribner's Monthly July 357/1 The women are occupied much of the time in preparing farinha. 1923 E. Hemingway Three Stories & Ten Poems 18 Part of the time he talked in D'Ampezzo dialect and sometimes in Tyroler German dialect. 1947 J. Van Druten Voice of Turtle ii. ii. 90 Isn't it funny, to think that all those things, like electricity, were there all the time..just waiting to be discovered? 1969 Guardian 14 Feb. 11/1 Much of the time I feel like death. I am in rather a bad temper. 2010 Ultra Fit Apr. 31/1 (heading) You've..looked in the mirror, sucked in your stomach and thought, ‘I wish I could look like this all the time.’ < as lemmas |
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