单词 | i will not see again |
释义 | > as lemmasI (also he, she, etc.) will not see (a specified age) again P22. colloquial (frequently euphemistic and humorous). I (also he, she, etc.) will not see (a specified age) again and variants: I am (he is, she is, etc.) older than the specified age. ΚΠ 1829 Morning Chron. 1 June The Alderman could not help laughing, and said he was sure she would never see thirty again. 1852 C. Dickens Bleak House (1853) ii. 7 He will never see sixty-five again, nor perhaps sixty-six, nor yet sixty-seven. 1899 H. James Awkward Age i. i. 3 He had..doubled the Cape of the years—he would never again see fifty-five. 1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale v. 72 ‘But she's not as old as you are,’ I said... ‘She'll never see thirty again.’ 1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul ii. iii. 80 She's not twenty, and, you know, I won't see sixty again. 2006 Independent on Sunday 7 May 20/2 She is sophisticated, sexually predatory and won't see 40 again: meet the urban cougar. < as lemmas |
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