单词 | now , then |
释义 | > as lemmasnow (one thing), then (another) b. Similarly now (one thing), then (another) and now (one thing) and again (another), etc. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 10 Now, one [is] the better: then, another best. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 401 Now weepe for him, then spit at him. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 [The weather is] so vncertaine, that now you shall haue a quiet breath and gale, and suddenly an vnexpected violent gust. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 634 Now [he] shaves with level wing the Deep, then soares. View more context for this quotation 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 60. ⁋8 His walk was now quick, and again slow. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. l. 95 Dr Finn was fully alive to this..saying now a word about the old lord's gout in his legs and arms, and then about the gout in the stomach. 1906 J. London White Fang ii. iv. 96 At..times he was in violent motion, now being turned over or around, and again, being smashed against a rock. 1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 224/1 Nigel Dempster, now the doyen of London gossip columnists, then a humble tipster, went to a party at the Barn one evening. < as lemmas |
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