英语词汇“time will tell”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) (only) time will tell (also show) (and variants): the truth about something (frequently as expressed in an indirect question), or the final resolution of a particular set of circumstances, will (only) be established at some time in the future.

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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > in future [phrase] > time will tell

(only) time will tell (also show)1563

1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. F.viii Paynes can not last for euermore, but tyme and ende wyll trye, And tyme shall tell me in my age, How youth led me awrye.

1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 75 Whether this will ever be really effected, or whether it will prove an Abortive..Time will tell.

1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 584 The Consequences of which, a little time will shew.

1770 C. Lucas Rights & Privileges Parl. Asserted 44 Whether any wicked representation of this kind has been made, upon a late occasion, time will tell.

1785 Mrs. A. Adams Lett. (1848) 260 How the pulse of the ministry beats, time will unfold.

1813 A. Opie Tales Real Life II. 68 Well; time will show whether you can keep this resolution.

1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. vi. 146 I have been..accused of fictitious crimes, and destined to a fate that only time will show.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. v. 164/2 She shall speak as distinctly to music as you do in conversation. Sampson... Time will show, madam.

1869 Missionary Herald (Cambridge, Mass.) Sept. 282 What stability of character they will manifest after leaving the restraints of boarding-school life, only time will tell.

1913 E. H. Porter Pollyanna xxiii. 234 The doctor had looked very grave..and had said that time alone could tell.

1957 A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 839 It may turn out, of course, that the experts are right and that their play is better... Time will show.

1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. xi. 332 ‘Big Herbie gone over, has he?’ Fincher said that time would tell.

2009 Guardian 27 Jan. 30/5 They..filled their time with the same old speculative phrases: on the one hand this may be happening, on the other hand that, and only time will tell.

单词	time will tell
释义	> as lemmas (only) time will tell (also show) (b) (only) time will tell (also show) (and variants): the truth about something (frequently as expressed in an indirect question), or the final resolution of a particular set of circumstances, will (only) be established at some time in the future. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > in future [phrase] > time will tell (only) time will tell (also show)1563 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. F.viii Paynes can not last for euermore, but tyme and ende wyll trye, And tyme shall tell me in my age, How youth led me awrye. 1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 75 Whether this will ever be really effected, or whether it will prove an Abortive..Time will tell. 1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 584 The Consequences of which, a little time will shew. 1770 C. Lucas Rights & Privileges Parl. Asserted 44 Whether any wicked representation of this kind has been made, upon a late occasion, time will tell. 1785 Mrs. A. Adams Lett. (1848) 260 How the pulse of the ministry beats, time will unfold. 1813 A. Opie Tales Real Life II. 68 Well; time will show whether you can keep this resolution. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. vi. 146 I have been..accused of fictitious crimes, and destined to a fate that only time will show. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. v. 164/2 She shall speak as distinctly to music as you do in conversation. Sampson... Time will show, madam. 1869 Missionary Herald (Cambridge, Mass.) Sept. 282 What stability of character they will manifest after leaving the restraints of boarding-school life, only time will tell. 1913 E. H. Porter Pollyanna xxiii. 234 The doctor had looked very grave..and had said that time alone could tell. 1957 A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 839 It may turn out, of course, that the experts are right and that their play is better... Time will show. 1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. xi. 332 ‘Big Herbie gone over, has he?’ Fincher said that time would tell. 2009 Guardian 27 Jan. 30/5 They..filled their time with the same old speculative phrases: on the one hand this may be happening, on the other hand that, and only time will tell. extracted from timen.int.conj. < as lemmas
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