| 单词 | out of one's time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of one's time (a) out of one's time: in an era unsympathetic to or out of keeping with one's attitudes, aspirations, etc.; at the wrong time. Cf. out of time adv. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > out of one's time out of one's time1803 1803 W. Duane Mississippi Question 152 Who can say that he was not intended for that age, and that the fall of Jerusalem was not owing to the unhappy accident of his being born out of his time, and in the wrong country! 1883 Calcutta Rev. 77 149 [He] was a man who lived out of his time... He ought by rights to have been a buccaneer, two hundred years ago. 1884 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 806 Peter [the Great] was no wonder; not a man out of his time. 1950 ‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xvi. 125 Kellie was born out of his time. Last piece of history he could have flourished in was the Alaska rushes. 1973 ‘R. Lewis’ Of Singular Purpose vi. 130 ‘Major Cornelius Van Rijk.’ He laughed shortly. ‘A man out of his time.’ 1999 E. Jorgensen & H. Jorgensen Thorstein Veblen xii. 80 Triggs's lecture notes..sound as if they had been written in the 1990s. He was a man perhaps 100 years out of his time. < as lemmas |
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