| 单词 | on the eve of |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the eve of b. In extended use. The time immediately preceding some event, action, etc. Chiefly in on the eve of. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > time preceding something or eve before1551 eve1626 aforetime1803 run-up1961 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. iii. 363 The fountaine of Narni, which neuer distilled his streames, but on the eue of a famine. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. viii. v. 134 I am just on the eve of becoming Mercury to the heir of the kingdom. 1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 269 We are upon the eve of a new arrangement as to our commissary's and quarter-master's departments. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 165 The hull on the eve of sinking. 1807 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 9 702 Why did the appointment take place on the eve of a general election? 1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire v. 65 These regions seemed on the eve of being lost to Christendom. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. vi. 60 Zionists..who at the eve of the war had been waiting for their turn on the immigration quota. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill vi. 165 The girls were on the eve of departing on their business. 2011 New Yorker 5 Sept. 24/1 On the eve of the biggest financial crisis in memory, the European Central Bank did something both predictable and stupid: it raised interest rates. < as lemmas |
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