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单词 to be doing
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to be doing
a. to be doing (with passive sense): to be in the course of being done, to be happening. Now chiefly in negative contexts: cf. there is nothing doing at Phrases 2b; also without auxiliary verb (cf. nothing doing at Phrases 2c).
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26812 Þat þere er dedis doand neu, þat þai agh sare wit resun reu.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Coloss. iv. 9 All thynges which are adoynge here.
a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II Sin, which is here expressed (while it is a-doing) to be, not bitter, but sweet.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 110 While these things were doing.
1749 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 7 May (1966) II. 428 What is doing amongst my Acquaintance at London.
1847 J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War (1885) iv. 199 This morning there is not much doing, except the soldiers are growling about our long delay at these quarters.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 211 The peal and flash of gun after gun gave notice, from three different parts of the valley at once, that murder was doing.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiv. 187 There is not much doing now, being New Year's Eve, and folks mops and brooms from what's inside 'em.
1907 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 Oct. (Sporting section) 9/3 Nothing doing in the first round. Little doing in the second round.
1944 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 26 Aug. in War Diaries (2001) 585 Attended COS again, but not much doing.
1986 P. Barker Century's Daughter xi. 192 Stephen was already wondering why he's come. ‘Not a lot doing,’ he said.
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents iii. 13 I'm not involved in..embalming and that, but I like to watch if there's not much doing.
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