单词 | now and again |
释义 | > as lemmasnow (one thing) and again (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. now and again (also anon, †eft, †now) a. now and again (also anon, †eft, †now): at one time and another, from time to time.every now and again: see every adj. and pron. Phrases 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally whiloma900 whilea1000 stoundmealc1000 stundumOE otherwhileOE umquhile1154 with and withc1175 by stoundsa1225 otherwhilesc1225 umbestound?c1225 umbewhilec1230 then and thenc1275 sometime…sometime1297 umstounda1300 by while13.. over while13.. sometime1340 umbe throwea1350 at timesa1382 now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393 umbwhile1393 eftsoona1398 sometimea1400 by sithesc1400 umbestoundsc1400 from time to (formerly unto) time1423 now and (also or) then1445 ever now and nowa1470 when and whenc1470 occasionallya1475 in timesa1500 whiles?a1500 whilomsa1500 sometimes1526 somewhiles1528 at whiles1540 ever now and then1542 a-whiles1546 somewhiles…, somewhiles1547 at sometimes1548 now and thenc1550 ever and anon1558 by occasions1562 on (also upon) occasion1562 as soon…as soon1581 every now and then (also again)1642 by a time1721 once and a while1765 ever and again1788 periodically1825 in spots1851 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2570 And in the Marches now and eft..He wroghte such knihthode there. c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 430 She swowned now and now for lakke of blood. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 570 The seed of mirte..Let yeue hem now & now for chaunge of mete. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 286 Ever now and now com all the knyghtes home that were presoners. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 171 God amongst the Pagans did,..now and anon, reveale the mysterie of Christ Jesus. 1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 447/2 A quiff would now and again ascend and hang like a tropical cloud over the hemisphere of his cranium. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. vi. 127 Now and again she would turn her face upon Rachel's figure. 1926 Brit. Weekly 25 Nov. 242/3 He's a bit batty every now and anon. 1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. xii. 105 An old woman just popped her head in now and again and saw to the fire. 1989 T. Bodett End of Road i. viii. 85 Doug would work now and again sliming fish over at the salmon cannery to support himself. < as lemmas |
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