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单词 now and again
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now (one thing) and again (another)
b. Similarly now (one thing), then (another) and now (one thing) and again (another), etc.
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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.
extracted from nowadv.conj.n.1adj.
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.
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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.
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