| 单词 | no sooner…, but, than, or when |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno sooner…, but, than, or when b. no sooner…, but, than, or when, = as soon as; immediately that. (Cf. 5b.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase] > as soon as as rathe as (also so rather so, swa rathe swa)OE not so soon…(that) or but (that)1390 as (als, also) swithe as (als swither)a1400 no sooner…, but, than, or when1560 how soon (that)c1600 (a) (b)1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia ii. 76 Like poyson that..No sooner tutcheth then it taints the blood.1659 J. Dryden Heroique Stanza's xxiii, in E. Waller et al. Three Poems 6 No sooner was the Frenchman's cause embrac'd Than the leight Mounsire the grave Don outwaigh'd.1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 48. ¶14 But he had no sooner labour'd himself into a tolerable Knowledge of the Affairs of it, than he rode Triumphant.1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 116 No sooner he began To round and redden, than away he rann.1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve xiii. 45 No sooner said than out in the night!(c)1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 468 No sooner had the Goddess ceas'd to speak, When lo, th' obedient Ships, their Haulsers break.1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 68 No sooner was his back turned, when a new conspiracy was set on foot.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclxiiijv He had no soner said so, but he was had thence. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xxv. 144 Which was no sooner in hand, but the chamber began afresh to shake. 1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 54 St. John no sooner saw him, but he stept back. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 123. ¶5 Florio was no sooner arrived at the great House.., but Eudoxus took him by the Hand. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. ix. 57 She had no sooner made an end of her speech, but she withdrew. 1825 W. Scott Talisman viii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 170 There has no sooner any one done me good service, but..he cancels his interest in me by some deep injury. < as lemmas |
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