单词 | from year to year |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom year to year b. from year to year: in each successive year, every year; continuously for a number of years; (with reference to a tenancy agreement) arranged in periods of a year; (with reference to a tenant) having such a tenancy agreement. Formerly also †for year into year. Cf. year-to-year adj. [Compare post-classical Latin de anno in annum (12th cent.), Anglo-Norman and Middle French d’an en an (early 14th cent.; French d’an en an ), and also Middle Dutch van jare te jare (compare Dutch van jaar tot jaar ). Compare earlier from (also fro) day to day at day n. Phrases 2c and the foreign-language parallels cited at that lemma.] ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adverb] > all year > year in year out or year after year from year to year1384 year by yeara1393 year after year?1567 year in and year out1819 perennially1861 the world > time > period > year > [adverb] yearlyeOE by yeara1382 year by yeara1393 from year to yearc1400 per annum1531 strawberry-wise1548 annuallya1555 per ann.1610 anniversarilya1631 twelvemonthly1847 1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 24 That the aldermen sholden be remoued for yer in to yer. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 2933 Sendeþ vs..On hundreþ þousande besauntz (From ȝer to ȝer [a1425 Linc. Inn ȝeir to ȝeir] ne mowen ȝee faile). a1475 Visio Philiberti (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 20 (MED) There as thou hast deyllyd from heyre to ȝere. 1539 Bible (Great) 1 Sam. ii. 19 Hys mother made hym a lytle coate, and brought it to him from yere to yere. 1645 J. Milton Sonnet i, in Poems 44 As thou from yeer to yeer hast sung too late For my relief. 1688 M. Waite Epist. Women's Yearly Meeting 9 Let the record be kept from month to month, and from year to year, of the Lord's dealing with us. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 458/2 There are Multitudes of People in this Kingdom, who..just make a Shift to rub on, from Year to Year, upon Credit and a running Trade. 1838 H. H. White Watkins' Princ. Conveyancing (ed. 8) ii. 28 (note) A tenancy from year to year. 1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. (1877) 251 That the energy radiated from year to year was supplied from year to year. 1902 Times 20 June 10/6 The rent which a tenant from year to year might reasonably be expected to give for the hereditament. 1940 M. Mitchell Let. 11 Nov. in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 319 Not just a brief grassfire flare of notoriety but solid success that grew from year to year. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vii. 219 Around 1300, though, the climate in the North Atlantic began to get cooler and more variable from year to year. < as lemmas |
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