请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 this is where we came in
释义

> as lemmas

this is where we came in
b. this is where we came in and variants: we have returned to the subject or situation at which we began.In quot. 1931 more literally: this is the same point as that when we entered the building, room, etc.
ΚΠ
1931 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland) 3 Apr. 15/1 Well, we might as well go; this is where we came in.]
1937 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 4 Aug. 2/4 ‘Then you take a ball the size of a man's head—’ Well, this is where we came in.
1949 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite vii. 114 Now we're back where we started. This is where we came in.
1950 Billboard 2 Sept. 94/2 What will the rink have once normality returns?.. A racket not a business—right back where we came in.
1967 ‘H. Howard’ Routine Investig. ii. 19 ‘Anything else you want to ask me?’ ‘No. This is where I came in. Tomorrow we'll go call on a few people who may have a few answers.’
2003 M. Thomson & G. Gilmour in M. Thomson Dyslexia Included ii. 32 Syllable analysis is useful for building up phonological representations of words—which is where we came in at the beginning of the chapter.
extracted from comev.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/3 13:13:00