单词 | to roll away |
释义 | > as lemmasto roll away to roll away 1. intransitive. Of time or a period of time: to pass by, elapse; to come to an end. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [verb (intransitive)] overgoeOE agoeOE goOE forthgoOE runOE overdrivea1275 farea1325 overmetea1325 walka1325 passc1330 slidec1374 yern1377 to pass overa1382 wastec1385 waive1390 to pass awaya1400 overseyc1400 drive?c1450 to drive ona1470 slevea1510 to roll awaya1522 to roll overa1522 to wear out, forth1525 flit1574 to pass on1574 to run on1578 overhie1582 wear1597 overslip1607 spend1607 travel1609 to go bya1616 elapsea1644 to come round1650 efflux1660 to roll round1684 lapse1702 roll1731 to roll around1769 to roll by1790 transpire1824 to come around1829 tide1835 elabe1837 tick1937 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. xii. l. 134 The donk nycht is al maist rollyt away. 1671 R. Baxter Divine Appointment of Lords Day Proved 125 How fast do weeks and years roll away! 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. iii. 46 His Years rolled away, till he had served New-England, Three Years before Mr. Cotton's coming over, Twenty Years with him. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 174 Generations and ages might roll away in silent oblivion. 1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 67 The night rolled tardily away. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxi. 303 Somehow or other, thank Heaven, the solitary days roll away peacefully and happily enough. 1896 Northern Echo 19 Aug. Time rolled away, but in their Chairman time seemed to halt. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 369 Oh I tells you, ef you aint got de milk en de dew of de old salvation when de long, cold years rolls away! 2009 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. a1 As the final hours of 2008 rolled away, New Year's Eve partygoer..seemed to forget why they hated the year so much. 2. a. intransitive. Of time that has passed: to seem never to have occurred, making a previous time easier to recall or evoke. ΚΠ 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. ix. 201 Years rolled away from the Past—he recalled the young, generous, ardent man whom..he had called his friend. 1854 Leisure Hour 30 Mar. 215/2 Autographs, which serve us as so many links between the past and present, making intervening ages roll away. 1901 B. Holmes Lect. (1905) VII. 201 As we look upon this scene, the intervening centuries roll away. 1955 N. Coward Diary 8 May (2000) 266 On Wednesday I lunched with Dickie and Edwina... We laughed a lot and some of the years rolled away. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Dec. b3 The years rolled away as I stood in my Bethesda kitchen recently and opened the Depression glass cracker jar. b. transitive. To cause (intervening time) to seem not to have passed. Cf. to roll back the years at Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1897 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 508/1 Could Father Hennepin, standing just where he stood that July day in 1680, have rolled away the three centuries intervening between that day and this. 1906 A. Bennett Whom God hath Joined v. 146 Some naive glance would flash in her brown eyes, that rolled away the years, and left her for an instant as girlish as Annunciata. 1920 San Antonio (Texas) Express 9 Oct. 1/2 Memory played a trick on them and rolled away the years until they could see..their hoopskirted sweethearts of more than 50 years ago. 2008 Retford Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. 5 Yve Robinson rolled away the years when Sir Elton John performed the only show of the summer at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium. < as lemmas |
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