单词 | there you are! |
释义 | > as lemmasthere you are! a. there you are! (colloquial) (a) = there you go at sense 15; (b) expressing or drawing attention to the simplicity or ready consummation of a process or action; = There it is for you, there you have it, the thing is done; (c) = What did I tell you? (d) expressing resignation to an unpleasant fact. ΚΠ 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxv. 536 All the people who had tried to make money and had not been able to do it, said, There you were! 1863 H. E. P. Spofford Amber Gods 133 She couldn't hire him a nurse, and there he was.] 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlii. 431 The immortelle requires no attention : you just hang it up, and there you are. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 142 ‘There you are!’ said Holmes, smiling. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 3/1 Tables, setting out in a there-you-are! fashion the declining percentage to the total of British imports into certain countries for two contrasted decades. a1912 Mod. Can't find the waiter? That's quite easy; just press that button and there you are! Accidents are common in Alpine ascents; one false step, and there you are! 1915 J. Conrad Victory iv. x. 373 ‘There you are!’ Ricardo shrugged his shoulders philosophically. ‘Can't be helped.’ 1926 S. Jameson Three Kingdoms i. 49 I'm sure that's a revolting sentiment, and revoltingly sentimental, but there you are. 1937 M. Sharp Nutmeg Tree xix. 250 ‘We've no business to talk about him. But there you are,’ said Julia harshly, ‘I'm the sort of woman any one talks to about anything.’ 1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between xiv. 173 It's a pity we have to shoot so many of them but there you are. < as lemmas |
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