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单词 i never thought i would see the day
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I never thought I would (live to) see the day
P4. to see the day (also time) ——, to live to see the day ——, and variants: to be alive at the time (when something happens); to experience in one's lifetime something specified. Now frequently in negative or interrogative contexts expressing surprise at something not previously experienced, as I never thought I would (live to) see the day, etc.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (transitive)] > live at specific time
to see the day (also time) ——c1380
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2910 (MED) Alas..þat y schold see þat day to ben an honge.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1133 He schal þe tyme se Þat he par-avnter schal mow þanked be.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxi. 213 I haue longe desyryd to se ye day that I nowe do se.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. iv. sig. Aiiii I may well cursse and ban This daie that euer I saw it.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvii. 368 For I shall see the day, when the Lord shall..righten my wronges.
1665 Bp. H. King Serm. 24 He hoped to see the time That a faithful blue Apron should be as good as a Blue Ribbon.
1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 28 A gloomy Clerk..Whose pious hope aspires to see the day When Moral Evidence shall quite decay.
1835 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 92 I've seen the time I joyed to wander in these glimpsing woods.
1846 C. Mackay Voices from Crowd 22 There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming: We may not live to see the day.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables vi. 69 Did you ever suppose you'd see the day when you'd be adopting an orphan girl?
1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 5 Sept. 76 I've seen the time when men..would hock their wristwatch or risk the rent money to back a good three-year-old in the Chelmsford Stakes.
2011 J. Golding Deadlock: Bk. iii. i. 10 I never thought I'd see the day when my son turns into an old nag.
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