单词 | now |
释义 | now adv., conj., & n. --adv   1. at the present or mentioned time.   2. immediately (I must go now).   3. by this or that time (it was now clear).   4. under the present circumstances (I cannot now agree).   5. on this further occasion (what do you want now?).   6. in the immediate past (just now).   7. (esp. in a narrative or discourse) then, next (the police now arrived; now to consider the next point).   8. (without reference to time, giving various tones to a sentence) surely, I insist, I wonder, etc. (now what do you mean by that?; oh come now!). --conj (often foll. by that + clause) as a consequence of the fact (now that I am older; now you mention it). --n this time; the present (should be there by now; has happened before now). Phrases and idioms as of now from or at this time. for now until a later time (goodbye for now). now and again (or then) from time to time; intermittently. now or never an expression of urgency. Etymology: OE nu |
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