| 单词 | twelve o'clock |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwelve o'clock b. spec. With ellipsis of hours (of the day: cf. twelve hours n. at Compounds 2c); also twelve o'clock. to strike twelve the first time (or all at once), figurative to display all one's capacities in one's first performance. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day nooneOE undernc1122 ninec1425 one1435 three o'clockc1460 twelve?1482 twelve hours?a1513 four o'clock?1578 six o'clock1693 quarter1871 kissing time1875 ?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes Alle the nyght from twelfe the clocke vnto .x. in the daye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 3 Fleance. The Moone is downe: I haue not heard the Clock. Banq. And she goes downe at Twelue . View more context for this quotation 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 182 If a man should vow he would never eat, till all the Clocks in the City should strike Twelve together. 1665 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 237 Betweene eleauen and twelue A clocke. 1709 M. Prior Hans Carvel 33 She..was wak'd at Ten;..At Twelve She rose. 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxxi, in Poems (new ed.) 65 Some wee short hour ayont the twal. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 195 D'ye think I wad hae comed out at twal o'clock at night? 1842 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year (rev. ed.) in Poems (rev. ed.) I. 212 The light burns low: 'Tis nearly twelve o'clock. 1847 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xix. 310 Their best parts were slowly revealed;..they did not strike twelve the first time. 1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. iv. 80 The clock struck twelve. 1894 J. A. Noble in Academy 10 Feb. 119/3 There are some writers who, to use a homely colloquialism, strike twelve all at once: their first achievement..tells us all about them. < as lemmas |
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