| 单词 | of the period |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof the period b. of the period: belonging to or characteristic of the time in question or under consideration; (also) characteristic of the present day (now rare). Cf. day n. 14b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] instancec1374 nowa1393 presenta1425 nowadays?c1425 the time1484 presentens1509 here1608 present tense1630 now1633 the now1720 day1766 today1831 this day and age1832 of the period1859 nowaday1886 these days1936 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 128 He was dressed carelessly, and more like a Frenchman than an Englishman of the period . View more context for this quotation 1859 A. J. Munby Diary 19 July in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 39 An Englishman of the period, smoking a cigar; his dress is ‘civilized’—he wears gloves. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. i. 2 Some of them grow ‘fast’, and ‘loud’—mere ‘girls of the period’. 1902 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession Pref. p. xv Both plots conform to the strictest rules of the period. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! i. 15 The room is..furnished with scrupulous medium-priced tastelessness of the period. 2002 New Yorker 9 Dec. 130/2 Like other bookish boys of the period, he dreamed of going into journalism. < as lemmas |
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