| 单词 | six o'clock |
| 释义 | > as lemmassix o'clock six o'clock n. see sense A. 2c; also denoting any position resembling that of the hands of a clock at six o'clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day nooneOE undernc1122 ninec1425 one1435 three o'clockc1460 twelve?1482 twelve hours?a1513 four o'clock?1578 six o'clock1693 quarter1871 kissing time1875 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 673 The Courses [i.e. veins of ore] usually lying from East to West, or at Six a Clock as their Term is. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand vii. 82 He..touched ‘six o' clock’ on the distant bull..and took the second pull for the last time. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 92 Expressions I learnt..when doing target-practice..viz. the six o'clock aim (from position on target focussed). six o'clock c. With omission of hours, as six o'clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adjective] > of the time of day > of specific times tenc1386 seven?c1425 twoc1485 six1600 twelve-hour1791 undecimarian1874 undeciman1883 1482 Monk of Evesham 20 Fro mydnyght tyl sex of the belle yn the mornyng.] 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. v. 25 At sixe a clocke ith morning. View more context for this quotation a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 136 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hee..tooke shipping..by sixe a clocke in the morning. 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 14 At six they go all to study in a large Hall. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 142 I set sail on the twenty-fourth Day of September 1701, at six in the Morning. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vi. 183 The rule in Du Guesclin's time was to rise and sup at six. 1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 127 'Tis striking six! Sure never day Was short as this is! < as lemmas |
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