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单词 by now
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by now
b. Hence, with omission of the noun: by this, by that; also by now, by then, etc.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2827 Bi þenne bigan þe liȝt of day.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3007 Bi þis come sarra to þe tide, O birth sco moght not ouerbide.
?a1400 Morte Arth. (1847) 19 By that was Launcelot hole and fere.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 774 Be this the word wes to king arthur gone.
c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 62 There are other ambassadors..directed by-now from the pope.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 262 Had Judah that day join'd..They had by this possess'd the Towers of Gath. View more context for this quotation
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. cxxxii By this Dunois Had arm'd.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. (at cited word) They must have sailed by now.
extracted from byprep.adv.
by (also ere, or, till, unto, etc.) now
a. With prepositions, as by (also ere, or, till, unto, etc.) now. Also for now: for the present, in the mean time.
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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxx. 16 (17) Usque nunc pronuntiabo mirabilia tua : oð nu ic forðsecgu wundur ðin.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14066 Tu þe gode win till nu Aȝȝ hafesst hidd..haldenn.
a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 11 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 161 (MED) Mest al þet me likede er nu, hit me mislikeð.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxxix.15 (MED) Lord, be þou turned vnto nov [L. usquequo], and be þou bidlich vp þy seruantes.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) :John (Douce 369(2)) xvi. 24 Til now ȝe axiden not ony thing in my name.
c1395 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 1619 Ne was I neuere er now [v.rr. no, nowe] wydwe ne wyf.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12800 (MED) Es þou helias halden til nu, Crist or prophet, quam to bu?
1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 42/2 Unto now late that Cristofre Conyers, late the Escheitour of Yorkshire, seisid certeins of the seide Lordships, Manoirs..into your noble hondes.
c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) 17785 Ye wold nevir yt leve or now.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 35 If þou haddist lyued unto now in worshipes & lustes of þe worlde.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 121 But as for now I shall reste of hym and I shal retourne there.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Giij Her eyes are mad, that they haue wept till now . View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) i. iii. sig. D1v No word of visitation, as ye love me, And so for now Ile leave ye.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 321 The other two who I had kept till now, in my Bower, pinion'd.
1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xl. 233 Ere now were its notes of accord With the smile of the flow'r-footed muse.
1860 C. Thirlwall Remains (1877) I. 395 Without this, she would have fallen ere now under the blows.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche xii. iv. 145 She is not hence by now six miles at most.
1901 S. E. White Westerners xxiii. 228 They's a good many ton of ore in four hundred foot of shaft.’.. ‘Let that go for now... We can call that ‘velvet’.’
1913 H. V. Esmond Eliza comes to Stay ii. 35 I'm quite safe up to now.
1957 Listener 5 Dec. 963/1 Most people by now are familiar with the aerosol pack.
1998 New Scientist 30 May 20/2 Till now, designs for DAB receivers have used expensive signal processing chips.
2004 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Apr. (Features section) 17 Pip-pip for now—and thanks for reading.
extracted from nowadv.conj.n.1adj.
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