单词 | othertimes |
释义 | othertimesadv. At other times.Usually having sometimes as correlative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at another time otherwhilec1225 elsec1400 elsewhen1418 anotherwhilea1425 otherwhiles?a1425 othertimes1447 othersome time1585 othersome whiles1606 1447 Rolls of Parl. V. 139/2 Other whiles such takers of distresse have no cause nor querell ayenst the owners of such Catell and other tymes fayne theim querels to make such distresse. 1477 King Edward IV Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 17 (MED) We have other tymes addressed our Lettres missiues vnto Robert Conestable for restitucion of the goods of Thomas Yare. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. vii. sig. g.vi Ypocrytes the whiche men wende other tymes to haue ben trewe faythfull and good people. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 327 Other times they would conuite them to supper. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 298 Sometimes reason, othertimes the World. 1607 Bp. J. Hall Holy Observ. 87 The spirit is oft times tryed by the speech: but other-times the speech must bee examined by the spirit. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4130/4 Anthony Fensom, a Ropemaker, othertimes a Labourer. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 90 Touching sometimes her chin, othertimes her teeth or cheeks, with the communicant wire. 1847 J. H. Ingraham Surf Skiff v. 24 They now moved along the shore, sometimes by a path winding inland round evergreen woods, and othertimes close to the pebbly shore. 1887 R. Abercromby Weather v. 166 Sometimes filling up of a cyclone is tolerably local; other times surging is on an enormous scale. 1957 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 17 291 Sometimes Existence and Reality are differentiated and othertimes not. 2000 Punch (Nassau, Bahamas) 11 Dec. 17/1 Sometimes he bugs me so much I feel like screaming, but other times he is an okay guy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1447 |
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