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单词 the times
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the times
c. the time (also the times): the present age; the age of the period under discussion. Cf. day n. 14b, of the hour at hour n. 4a, moment n. Phrases 2. sign of the times: see sign n. Phrases 2.Sometimes hard to distinguish from sense A. 6a.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun]
instancec1374
nowa1393
presenta1425
nowadays?c1425
the time1484
presentens1509
here1608
present tense1630
now1633
the now1720
day1766
today1831
this day and age1832
of the period1859
nowaday1886
these days1936
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxxi. 161 An ordenaunce of a moche sauage and wyld guyse, and ageynst the kynde of the tyme.
1525 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xvi. 3 Can ye not discerne the sygnes of the tymes [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. the tokenys of tymes; L. signa..temporum].
c1593 Thomas of Woodstock (2002) III. 127 I will do my best to reform the pestiferousness of the time.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 47 How much honour Pickt from the chaft and ruin of the times, To be new varnist.
?1640 New Serm. of Newest Fashion (1877) 45 Hee is the onelie man of the time, hee is the onelie able man.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. F These are the great Animadverters of the times, the Church-respondents in the Pew.
a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 3 Cannot I..sigh for the Iniquities of the Times..?
1796 H. W. Coulthurst Evils Disobedience & Luxury 4 Civil Disobedience is the flagrant Characteristic of the Times.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 75 The Lady..did not..ring a bell, because such was not the fashion of the time.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam civ. 163 Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times . View more context for this quotation
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xi. 55 An act which ran counter to the religious feelings of the time.
1910 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art II. 17 The poets of the time liken their wine cups to ‘disks of thinnest ice’.
1998 Art Room Catal. Christmas 35/3 (caption) A Florentine painter and engraver who specialised in cityscapes and landscapes, as was the fashion of the time.
2009 Independent 3 Oct. 39/1 Some events lay bare the soul of a nation or, even more, the soul of the times.
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