| 单词 | toytime |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoytime toytime n. Winchester College time allocated outside of teaching periods for students to complete schoolwork, esp. to prepare for upcoming lessons; cf. sense 9. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] > study time toytime1846 1846 C. Wordsworth Christian Boyhood at Public School I. viii. 130 Let the ‘Prefect in course’ in each Chamber preserve the same quiet and order before you retire to rest.., as he is accustomed to do during the longer period of ‘Toy Time’. 1881 W. H. David in C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 84 The clock marking 7, each junior retires to his ‘toys’ or bureau, for an hour and a half—during what is known as ‘toy-time’, when the work of the next morning and the week's composition have to be prepared. 1901 Public School Mag. 7 158/1 Thus we find that from seven o'clock to half-past eight is ‘toy-time’. 1933 Country Life 22 July 71/1 The scene is in ‘toytime’, or preparation in the evening, when ‘inferiors’ sit working at their partitioned desks or ‘toys’. 2020 C. Rostron in winchestercollege.org 26 Apr. (accessed 28 Apr. 2020) It's my last term here, too, and I am thinking longingly of Chamber teas; shirt-sleeve order; illicit Meads hours; garden football until the last minute before toytime. < as lemmas |
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