| 单词 | sooner or later |
| 释义 | > as lemmassooner or later c. sooner or later, at some time or other.Usually with reference to the future, and implying the certain happening of the event referred to. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day yeteOE hereafter1154 hereafterwardc1386 sometimec1386 oncea1393 whiloma1400 rather or latera1450 one of these daysa1470 one day1477 umquhile1489 in timea1500 with time?1531 sooner or later1577 odd shortly1681 some summer's day1697 first or last1700 some of these (‥) days1831 someday1898 down the road (also track)1924 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44v The stones, stickes, and suche baggage..are to be throwen out sooner or later. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 393 The Tide and Ebbe coming sooner or later. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 613 To destroy, or unimmortal make All kinds, and for destruction to mature Sooner or later . View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 289. ¶4 The dying Man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 427 To keep up..a correspondence in Italy, would sooner or later betray them. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 342 I have observed, that, sooner or later, they come to an evil end. < as lemmas |
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