单词 | the day, hour, moment |
释义 | > as lemmasthe day, hour, moment a. Used before a word denoting time, as the day, hour, moment: the day, hour, moment, etc., in question or under consideration; the time (now or then) present. Also (Irish English) the Christmas.In later use chiefly in idiomatic uses.the time: see time n. 5c. the while: see while n. 2. ΚΠ OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxvii. 318 Þa þy dæge ne mihte nan læce beon funden, ac þy æfterfylgendan nihte þæt lic læg unbebyrged. a1275 Doomsday (Trin. Cambr.) in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 43 Foure engles in þe dairet blouit here bemen. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 843 (MED) Alle dai hii..resden to þan castle Fort him com þe niþte..In þan castle..at þe midniþt [c1275 Calig. a þa mid-niht] inomen to rede. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3889 Þe while holde lya in bedde þenne shal þou rachel wedde. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 314 Aleyn wax wery in the dawenynge For he hadde swonken al the longe nyght. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. xxiii. 227 Þe said voce was contempnit and necleckit in þe tyme. 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale viii. 213 And, iust at thinstant, all the canons plaien From towne to Campe, from Camp to towne againe. 1780 Mirror No. 76. ⁋3 He comes there only as he does to the coffee-house, to enquire after the news of the day. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liv. 543 At the moment, the bell rang loudly in the hall. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 61 A tongue that ruled the hour. 1866 J. H. Newman Dream of Gerontius (ad fin.) And I will come and wake thee on the morrow. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xii. 137 Having no job for the autumn, Aaron fidgetted in London. 1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 351/2 These things are mere fads of the hour. 1949 K. Ferrier Let. 18 May (2004) iii. 79 I pointed out they hadn't put up my fee..and got it put up on the instant! 1995 J. Murphy Brothers of Brush i. ii, in Two Plays (2001) 97 I'll give him a bit of work for the Christmas. 2015 J. Colgan Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery xx. 299 He could start at Polly's at five, do his rounds and be finished with his two jobs for the day by nine. < as lemmas |
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