| 单词 | such is life! |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuch is life! c. such is life!: an expression of resignation or acquiescence in things as they are; similarly that's life, life's like that. ΚΠ 1739 W. Broome Poems (ed. 2) 222 Such, such is Life! the Mark of Misery plac'd Between two Worlds, the future and the past. 1796 W. J. Temple Diary 7 Apr. (1929) 167 This interruption is very teasing; but such is Life. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxix. 347 ‘Sairey,’ says Mrs. Harris, ‘sech is life. Vich likeways is the hend of all things!’ 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 6 With a mournful air—as who should say, ‘Here is another wretched creature come to dinner; such is life!’ 1903 ‘T. Collins’ (title) Such is life. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xvi. 227 That's life, my dear. We've got to go on to the finish anyhow, trusting that luck will turn. 1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep vii. 140 No, it's..not the sort of thing that makes the newspapers... Ah well, life's like that. 1970 New Statesman 26 June 924/3 Whatever Ned Kelly was really like..he can scarcely have been like Mr Jagger... The famous last words ‘Such is life’—could as well have been ‘Pass the salt’. 2003 V. Blake Bloodless Shadow (2004) 44 Lots of people have nothing in common with their parents. That's life. You just have to get on with it. such is life! In Middle English such is (+ infinitive) often = This is what it is (to be, etc.). such is life! (see life n. Phrases 9c).extracted from suchadj.pron.< as lemmas |
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