| 单词 | in season |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin season Phrases P1. in season. a. At the right and proper time, opportunely. Also (? chiefly U.S.), at the proper time or in good time for or to do something. to be in season, to be seasonable or opportune. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] in timea1325 in good timec1325 in seasonc1330 tidefullya1340 tidily1340 betimesc1380 betimec1385 opportunelyc1425 at one's leisure1481 maturely1531 seasonably1532 timeously1538 timefully1614 tempestively1628 patly1632 opportune1667 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2542 Þre ȝer after was he kyng, In ful sesyne made hys endyng. 1414 Deed is Working 79 in 26 Pol. Poems 58 To chastyse fooles is ay in seson. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vi. vii Therfore hit appiereth wel that the thynges whiche ben made in season ben wel made and done by reason. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. l. 4 That I should know how to speake a worde in season [1535 Coverdale in due season] to him that is wearie. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. v. 236 After six moneths siege they surrendred the citie to their own honour, and shame of other Christians who sent them no succour in season. 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour v. i. 78 Alt. Good morrow, cavaliers. Vas. 'Twill be an houre yet before that greeting Be in season. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. x. 139 [He] had just cleared one eye, in season, to remark where his enemy entered. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xii. 156 The two young men desired to get back again in good season. 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. iii. 195 They arrive in season for the meeting. 1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey x. 280 Mr. March has to be home by a certain day; and we shall just get back in season. 1906 W. Walker John Calvin v. 108 News of this intention reached him in season to effect his escape. b. Of game, etc.: At the time for hunting, catching, etc. to be in season: (of a plant or animal) to flourish, be in its finest condition, be in the best state for eating; also, (of an animal) to be in heat. Similarly, to come in or into season. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [adverb] in the time (also season) of greasec1330 in season1473 of (the) seasonc1613 1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 93/1 Oon Hert, to be taken in season..and 11 Bukkes in season. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 497 Than the deir war in sesoun. 1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 §1 Any Samons or Trowtes, not being in season. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 238 Conies are al wayes in season, either yong or old: but their skinnes are in best season from Alhallontide vnto Shrouetide. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 220 Salmon..come in season, and goe out with the Buck. 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F4v If the same Fruit were let alone till it were fully Ripe, and in Season. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 135/1 The Hart or Stagg..is in Season..from Midsummer until Holy-Rood Day. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 148. ⁋7 To eat every Thing before it comes in Season. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) ii. 31 Have you any pinks or carnations in bloom? Crocus. They are not in season, your honour. 1807 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 6 A very fine trout..he proved..to be very well in season. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 176 He is in high season, as proved by the crimson of his fins. 1865 Reader No. 154. 646/3 The fish being in perfect season from October to June. 1903 F. Simpson Bk. Cat iii. 38 Cats come in season about every three weeks during the spring and summer. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > thriving well-likingc1350 well-thrivena1400 in seasonc1400 flowerya1420 thriftyc1440 valent1492 wealthya1538 vegetous1610 vegete1639 thriving1647 florid1656 grush1786 c1400 Rom. Rose 4981 As longe as Youthe is in sesoun, They dwellen in oon mansioun. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 69 Such Men, in other mens Calamities, are, as it were, in season. d. Of a place of resort, etc.: (To be) fashionable, in a state of activity. Cf. sense 10. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective] > frequented by in season1718 fashionable1815 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Sept. (1965) I. 439 The fair of St. Lawrence is now in Season. 1868 Earl of Wilton Sports of Eng. 68 From the first day of grouse to the last day of pheasants, London is never in season. e. Of timber: Seasoned. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > seasoned seasonable1531 seasoned1545 in season1627 air-seasoned1919 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 2 The masts and yards are chained together in some great water to keepe them from rotting, and in season. P2. out of season. a. Unseasonably, inopportunely; predicatively, unseasonable, inopportune. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] untimec1000 untidya1225 untimesa1300 out of season1377 undue1398 out of time1483 untimeousa1500 importunate1529 inopportune1533 importunea1535 unconvenable1542 intempestive1548 unseasonable1561 untimeable1570 out-of-season1574 untimely1581 unseasoned1589 baldc1590 timeless1590 melancounterous?1602 untimelessa1607 unopportune1653 mistimelyc1680 mistimed1687 ill-timed1692 ill-seasoned1843 unchancy1860 intempestuous1885 unseasonal1935 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] in (earlier on) untimec897 untimelyc1200 out of timea1325 in unseasona1400 importunelyc1425 in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490 importunatelya1492 at ungaina1500 untimeously1513 intempestively1548 out of season1548 timeless1586 unseasonably1586 inopportunely1609 unseasonablea1634 unopportunely1651 timelessly1673 unseasonally1941 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 351 And as wel in lente as oute of lente, alle tymes ylyche, Suche werkes with hem were neuere oute of sesoun. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark i. f. 29–31 He loueth those that cal vpon him, cal they neuer so importunatly, and out of season. 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iv. iv. 37 Although the rack be somewhat out Of season with my old bones. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 850 So spake the fervent Angel, but his zeale None seconded, as out of season judg'd. View more context for this quotation 1718 Free-thinker No. 27. 1 True Wit and Good Sense..can be spoiled only by making use of them Improperly, or out of Season. 1864 ‘Holme Lee’ Silver Age II. 239 Be consoled—you will have your joys, though they come rather out of season. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 267 Howbeit I know thou surely must be mine Or soon or late, yet out of season, thus I woo thee roughly. b. Not in season; not at the time for hunting, catching, eating, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > of game, fruit, fashions, etc. out of season?a1513 out1660 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 199 Off ane vod fuill, far owt off seasoun, He wantis nocht bot a rowndit heid. 1683 T. Robinson in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 132 We..could not meet with the Macreuse [the scoter], it being now out of season. 1781 H. Newdigate Let. 15 Oct. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) iii. 46 A Hamper of good things,..Pears & Pines in perfection, Rouleaux never out of season. 1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xviii. 282 I pretended to want to save it [sc. a hare]..as it was so glaringly out of season. 1960 Mrs. Beeton's Cookery & Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) vii. 93 When a fruit is out of season in one part of the globe it is usually in season in another. c. Not in fashion; not in its period of fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Prol. 10 The hard-grain'd Muses of the cube and square Were out of season. 1891 E. A. Freeman Sketches Fr. Trav. 180 He will prefer Clermont out of season to Clermont in the season. P3. in season and out of season: at all times, without regard to what is considered opportune. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [phrase] > always in season and out of season1526 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Tim. iv. 2 Be fervent, be it in season or out of season [εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως]. 1841 A. Helps Transact. Business in Ess. (1842) 93 He will be repeating his folly in season, and out of season, until at last it has a hearing. ΚΠ 1600 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. II. 180 This deponar desyrit Maister Alexander to dischone with him, be ressoun his awin culd nocht be sasone be preparit. < as lemmas |
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