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单词 to roll round
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to roll round
to roll round
1. intransitive. Of a regular or due event or time: to arrive, come; to happen.
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1684 J. Dryden tr. Virgil in Misc. Poems 31 Saturnian times Rowl round again.
1720 W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer Pref. The Age of Gallantry I observe seems to roll round again.
1840 J. Keese in Wintergreen (1844) 159 And Pilgrim daughters on this isle..Will greet thy presence with a smile When Thanksgiving rolls round.
1868 Proc. & Deb. Constit. Convent. State N.Y. IV. 2554/4 The majority that apparently was had..is fast passing away, and will become..a beautiful minority before another election rolls round.
1918 I. S. Cobb Old Judge Priest ii. 58 [They] shall have covers and places provided for them when anniversary night rolls round.
1984 Economist (Nexis) 20 Oct. 46 Similar legislation is expected to be introduced.., aimed at taking effect by the time the lovely boating weather rolls round again.
2004 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 8 July (Business section) 1 Each year as summer rolls round Bartley..gears up for his busiest weeks.
2. intransitive. Of time or a period of time: to go by; to pass, elapse. Also transitive (reflexive).
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
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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
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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
1684 T. Creech tr. Theocritus Idylliums 99 He stains red Altars with a Thousand Beasts As Months roul round, and bring the solem Feasts.
1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 128 The Year rolls round, and steals away The Breath that first it gave.
1781 J. Swain Coll. Poems 38 O may they still increase as time rolls round, And each new day with new-born joys crown'd.
1845 W. A. Caruthers Knights of Horse-shoe xxi. 85 Before another half century rolls round, the borders of this most magnificent of all inland seas will be sought for by travellers.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 45 As the year Roll'd itself round again to meet the day When Enoch had return'd.
1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Dec. 369/3 I am delighted with the Rural this year... The children, especially, are all very anxious to have the time roll round for the paper to come.
1910 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. V. 256 The years rolled round: His humble mound Sank to the level of the ground.
1945 P. Sargent Between Two Wars 528 As the centuries roll round, mankind, discovering new things that are true for him, puts the old and discarded behind.
2002 Church Times 27 Sept. 13/1 I've written about Michaelmas Goose before—how the years roll round!—but C. J. Jackson..offers a whole delicious Michaelmas menu.
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