单词 | to come to an end |
释义 | > as lemmasto come to an end a. to be at an end: (of resources, etc.) to be exhausted; (of periods of time) to be completed; (of an action or state) to terminate. In corresponding senses, to bring to an end, to come to an end. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22263 His rigning es brote til ende. 14.. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 155 Then schulde oure trobul be at a nende. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v. sig. F2 Our trauels are at end. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 430 Speake for your selues, my wit is at an ende. View more context for this quotation 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 55 in Sylva A Gard'ner's work is never at an end. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 284. ⁋2 Their affairs will be at an end. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxvii. 235 Will these years and years of misery come to an end?—shall we be free? 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 47 This part of the festival was nearly come to an end. 1877 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 198 Imposture must come to an end. < as lemmas |
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