| 单词 | time word |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime word time word n. a word which expresses or specifies time. ΚΠ 1830 D. K. Sandford tr. F. Thiersch Greek Gram. p. iv The copula..must determine whether a property once existed in a substance, now exists, or will hereafter exist in it; that is, the copula expresses time, is a time-word. 1855 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 442 Associated with this, is the very remarkable, it may even be said wonderful, use of the two time-words olam, in the Hebrew, and eon, in the Greek. 1933 W. A. Russell Devel. Art of Lang. viii. 57 The thought of an action is intimately associated with the thought of time; so much so that some grammarians have called the verb the Time-word. 2005 J. R. Holmes in J. Chance & A. K. Siewers Tolkien's Mod. Middle Ages iv. 58 Virtually any English verb form can be made to express a future meaning simply by adding a time word indicating future. < as lemmas |
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