| 单词 | no future in |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(there is) no future in b. The prospective condition (of a person, country, etc.); spec. a prospective condition of success, prosperity, etc.; (there is) no future in (something): there is no prospect of success or advancement in (it). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > future world or condition > of a person, country, etc. future1859 the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperity or success > prospective future1891 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > future world or condition > of success, prosperity, etc. future1891 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) IV. xi. viii. 179 My sacrifice to Jasper's future might not have been in vain! 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. viii. 263–4 See every~thing which belongs to the future of Greece. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xx. 152 Its future is a future which..is likely to add fresh lustre to the Newspaper Press. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray xv. 268 I like men who have a future, and women who have a past. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i What was the use of going in to look at this crazy, futuristic stuff with the view of seeing whether it had any future? 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. x. 199 No future in it! 1932 Week-end Rev. 7 May 586/2 Miss Stone certainly has a future as a novelist. 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 40 We can't hide things up. There's no future in that. 1960 L. Cooper Accomplices i. vi. 62 You can't rob a bank or bash a chap's head in and then say to the police, Oh it doesn't matter I'm leaving here next week. (You can, I suppose, if you feel that way, but there's no future in it.) 1968 Listener 28 Nov. 714/2 I've known Lowry since 1919, when we were both working in the life class in Manchester School of Art, and I predicted a future for Lowry. 1971 ‘H. Carmichael’ Most Deadly Hate v. 62 There's no future in being an accessory after the fact in a murder case. < as lemmas |
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