单词 | at the time |
释义 | > as lemmasat the time a. A particular period indicated or characterized in some way, either explicitly (usually with of) or by anaphoric reference (as at the time, etc.).for the time: see Phrases 3i(a).peacetime, plague time, war time, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] sitheeOE tidec897 timeeOE mealeOE whilec950 throwOE charec1000 stevenOE timeOE seasona1300 tempest1382 world1389 occasionc1425 tidement1575 period1602 minute1607 hinta1670 epoch1728 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 194 Hit is awriten be ðam yfelum timan. OE Wulfstan Last Days (Hatton) 134 Wa ðam wifum þe þonne tymað & on þam earmlican timan heora cild fedað. OE Wulfstan Outline of Hist. (Hatton) (1957) 155 Æfter þisum fæce gyt gewurðan sceall swa egeslic tima swa næfre [corrected in MS from æfre] ær næs. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 On al þis yuele time heold Martin abbot his abbotrice xx wintre & half gær & viii dæis. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 1321 Þe prinse..Þat in time of worre as a lomb is boþe mek & milde & in time of pes as leon boþe cruel & wilde. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 68 Yef me him zent aduersete, pouerte, ziknesse, dyere time, rayn, druȝþe. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 72 Sithen þe pestilence tyme. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 59 (MED) In þat tyme þere weren iij heroudes of gret name & loos for here crueltee. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 53 As the Knyghtes shold kepe ye peple in tyme of peas. 1551 R. Robinson in tr. T. More Vtopia sig. ✠vv Ye old acquayntaunce, that was betwene you and me in the time of our childhode. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **3v Saint Iohns in Cambridge, that at that time was..shining so farre aboue all other Houses, Halls, and Hospitalls. 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 78 The See of Goa at the time of my being there was not finish'd. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 114 To pass his Times of Recreation In choice and noble Conversation. 1706 Serious Admon. Youth ii. 20 A Man some Years since Executed at Dorchester, whose Legs rotted off during the time of his Confinement. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 389 Though the time for them be over, yet Time itself is not exhausted. 1808 W. Scott in J. Dryden Wks. XV. 379 John Taylor..wrote eighty books, which not only made such sport at the time, but were thought worthy of being remitted into a large folio. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 233 All times of mental progress are times of confusion. 1920 Stage Year Bk. 51 Film stock..became scarce, for there was no plant for manufacturing this in Britain at the time. 1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 31 Oct. 16/3 For me, it was a time of simplification, a slow unburdening. 2010 Searcher Feb. 42/1 Newark siege pieces were produced during the time of the British Civil Wars in the mid-17th century. < as lemmas |
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