单词 | time reveals all |
释义 | > as lemmastime reveals (also tells, will tell, will show, etc.) all (things) (a) time reveals (also tells, will tell, will show, etc.) all (things) [after post-classical Latin tempus omnia revelat (1528 in Erasmus), itself after omnia tempus revelat (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian)] . ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement sig. UU.iii/1 Tyme bringeth ye truthe to lyght thoughe men go neuer so moche about to cloke it.] 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. E.iv Tempus omnia reuelat. Tyme discloseth all thynges. 1565 J. Hall Hist. Expost. in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. Aaa.iiiiv But as tyme reuealeth all thynges, so this deulyshe beaste in short tyme was knowne in his righte kynde and name. 1599 M. Aray Discouerie Tragical Fiction f. 12 Tyme will tell all. 1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 205/2 Time reuealeth all things. 1654 in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) II. 600 There is a rumour, that the prince of Condé has received great recruits of men; and that..he intends to besige Corbie. Time will shew all. 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. vii. 63 Saturn..whom the Greeks called χρονὸς, i.e. Time, the father of Truth: even for this cause (saith Plutarch) because time reveals all things. 1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer ii. 31 Quid. Whoever lives to see it, will know more of the matter. Pamph. Time will tell all. 1863 E. C. Bowler Let. 16 May in A. R. Foroughi Go if you think it your Duty (2008) 164 Time tells all things and we will wait four months and see then. 1869 W. R. S. Ralston tr. I. Turgenev Liza I. xxv. 244 I have already told you that I may be mistaken. However, time will reveal all. 1979 P. Goldman Death & Life Malcolm X (ed. 2) 427 I remember some of the ministers used to say that time reveals all things. 1997 Harlan (Kentucky) Daily Enterprise 5 Apr. 4/4 It is difficult to dissect any ‘new era’ declaration,..but there is an old and very true saying that time reveals all. 2010 C. Wiseman Take Walk in my Shoes v. 85 I don't know if she was trying to fool herself of me. One thing I do know is that time tells all. < as lemmas |
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