| 单词 | in the making |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the making (d) in the making: (existing) in an undeveloped or unfinished state.Quots. 1872 onwards may represent a secondary development of the phrase, perhaps after German im with infinitive, e.g. im Entstehen. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] to be in making?a1425 to be a-making1492 in the making1644 on the stocks1669 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 31 Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xv. 266 The man was still in the making..and there were both virtues and faults capable of shrinking or expanding. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxiv. 276 His opinion..may be our virtue in the making. 1879 H. Maudsley Pathol. of Mind vi. 282 Evil is good in the making as vice is virtue in the making. 1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat vii. 99 Unless the [newspaper] correspondent has seen history in the making. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness i, in Youth 68 This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making. 1951 R. Harling Paper Palace (1952) 117 The sense of being at the centre of a new world in the making. 1965 K. Amis & R. Conquest Egyptologists 139 A meal..was in the making. 1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 28 May c1/4 She photographed furniture in the making at Howerton Antique Reproductions. < as lemmas |
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