单词 | some day |
释义 | > as lemmassome day (a) some day. extracted from dayn.ΚΠ OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 454 Ða sume dæg eode he swa swa he oft dyde. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxix. 11 Hit gelamp sume dæg [L. quadam die] þæt Iosep wæs ana innan his hlafordes huse. lOE St. Neot (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 130 Hit gelamp sume dæige, þæt se halge were on ærnemorgen digellice ferde to his wæterseaðe. (ii) On an unspecified day in the future. Cf. some fine day at fine adj., adv., and n.2 Phrases 3. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 148 Tempore futuro, docebo ic tæce gyt to dæg oððe sume dæg. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 985 To vouche sauf, som day with hym to dyne. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. ii. sig. F.vv I knowe my lingering not likely to last long, but oute wil my snuffe sodeynly some daye within a while. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. ii. 14 Foreseeing that he, would be some day Suprem Lord, & Sovereign of the thirstie Ethrappels. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. xiii. 196 There's no keeping him. I may be tempted else to knock his brains out some day. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xvii. 95 I hope to return some day what you then so generously pressed upon me. 1953 D. Whipple Someone at Distance xx. 176 ‘Some day’, she said to herself, ‘I shall be in a position where these little people will not dare to disrespect me.’ 2002 Chicago Tribune 8 Apr. i. 2/5 He'll do just fine. The kid might even make federal judge some day. < as lemmas |
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