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单词 before his time
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before his (also her, etc.) time
(a) before his (also her, etc.) time: prematurely.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > early, too early, or prematurely
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oversoona1400
overtimelya1400
untimeously1513
before his (also her, etc.) time1545
abortively1552
immaturely1572
untimelya1586
forwardlya1641
prematurely1641
premature1754
ahead of oneself1854
over-early1856
beforetimes1885
1545 T. Paynell tr. St. Bernard Compend. Treat. Well Liuynge xxii. f. lxxxiv Luxuriousnesse..causeth man to seme olde and aged before his tyme [L. Luxuria carnem..fractam..celeriter ducit ad senectutem].
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. ix Abhorsion..is when a woman is delyvered of her chylde before her tyme.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 220 The good are called before their time, for ridding them out of the hands of the wicked.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 124 In the Prime Of Youth, her Lord expir'd before his time.
1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. 389 The rate of succession may be retarded by insisting upon one object, and propelled by dismissing another before its time.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. vi. 99 We grow old before our time.
1890 Field 31 May 799/3 The Banksia roses..are bent on coming out before their time.
1916 M. Gyte Diary 29 Dec. (1999) 112 The cow that calved before its time has not cleansed.
1980 F. Buechner Godric 58 Is the past a sea old men can founder in before their time and drown?
2005 A. Smith Accidental 186 The cleaning girl..who looked poor, who looked old before her time.
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