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单词 of one's life
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of one's life
e. of one's life: used to indicate the most significant example or event of its kind in one's life and (more recently also in weakened use) an exceptionally enjoyable or notable example or event (as the time of one's life, etc.). See also the surprise of one's life at surprise n. 4b.
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of one's life1862
1862 L. P. Harvey Let. 17 Apr. in L. P. Brockett & M. C. Vaughan Woman’s Work in Civil War (1867) ii. 260 Yesterday was the day of my life. Thank God for the impulse that brought me here.
1874 Once & for Ever 181 Perhaps such days are common to you. To me it was the day of my life.
1887 A. M. Sullivan Let. 13 Nov. in H. Keller Story of my Life (1903) iii. iii. 340 We took Helen to the circus, and had ‘the time of our lives’!
1905 M. Moore Let. 24 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 10 I am having the time of my life.
1936 Discovery Jan. 14/2 They got the shock of their lives.
1939 W. Saroyan (title) The time of your life.
1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. 25 The men sat with their heads bowed over arms clasped round their knees like long-distance runners recovering from the race of their lives.
1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 17 The woman he had once described as ‘that uptight airhead from Cleveland’ was easily the love of his life.
1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) xi. 311 She's going to get the shock of her life. He's definitely wind-broke, as Sam would say.
2004 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 14 Mar. 16/2 The droll tongue of a woman with the wit to realize that, while she may be dirty and tired and in constant danger, she is having the time of her life.
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