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单词 now then
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now then
b. Similarly now then. Frequently used to introduce a command, or as a mild reproof.
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OE Blickling Homilies 237 Nu þonne aris & gang on ða ceastre to Matheum þinum breþer.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xv. 3 Now þanne go & smyt Amalech..ne spare þou to hym.
c1395 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale D. 2141 Now thanne put thyn hand doun my bak..and grope wel bihynde Bynethe my buttok.
a1425 Adam & Eve (Wheatley) in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 87 (MED) Now þanne þou schalt be cursid upon þe erþe, which openede his mouþ, and took þe blood of þi broþir of þin hond.
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 141 (MED) Now þan lete þe chirche of god graunte al þat folewiþ oute of þe antecedent aȝens which I argue here.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 238 Now thenne, noble Cousyne, seace your wepyng.
?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) 1970 Now thanne, yower puer blyssyng gravnt vs tylle!
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Or Or ça, now then, or goe to.
1693 W. Congreve tr. Juvenal Satire XI 308 in J. Dryden Satires Juvenal & Persius 231 Now then, be all thy weighty Cares away.
1739 P. Aubin Count de Vinevil 3 Now then, my dear Child, let me prevail with you to consent to our Separation.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xix. 190 ‘Keep your eyes open,’ said Wardle... ‘Now then.’
1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ iii. 59 Now then, Mr. Baker, get the men along. What's the matter with them?
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xii. 173 The police barred my way... ‘Now then!’ said one of them.
1991 J. Cartwright To 3 Oh dear, are you all right, love? He wants to take the weight off his feet, I keep telling him. Now then, two whiskeys.
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now then
6. Introducing an important or noteworthy point in an argument or proof, or in a series of statements. Also now then.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > as concession
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eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlix. 377 Nu ðonne,..nu is to ongietanne æt hu micelre scylde ða beoð befangne.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 142 Nu cwæð se halga Beda þe ðas boc gedihte, þæt hit nan wundor nys.
c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 20 Nu wæs þes kyng þe com to Criste underkyng ihaten on þa ylcan wisæn.
c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 22 Nu is riht þenne þet we demen us seolf eauer unmihtie to werien & to witen us.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 53 (MED) Nou behoueþ to habbe tuo mesures, ane little..And anoþre guode and large.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 3 (MED) Nou ȝif a woman maryd schal be, Anoon sche schal be boȝt and sold.
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xliv. f.28a (MED) Nou euery man þat lyueþ in þis wrecched lyf is gostly syke.
a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 33 (MED) Now of þis Augustynes art is Erkenwolde bischop.
1525 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 75 Nowe, Sir, as God hathe endued your Grace with Christen courauge [etc.].
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xix. 29 Now the principall thing required in a witness is fidelitie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 22 Now if thou wert a Poet, I might haue some hope thou didst feigne. View more context for this quotation
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 323 Now then I subsume, no religious worship..is due to Saints.
1726 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. (ed. 2) I. iii. §54. 498 Now, the Observation may be made very commodiously, after the following..Method.
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. i. 18 And now then, continued he, as we have gone thus far, and have settled between us what we believe Art to be; shall we go a little farther..?
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 122 Now this was bad enough, occurring as it did three times a week on the average, but this was not all.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 150 Now the Acarnanians are famous for their skill in slinging.
1920 J. Conrad Rescue (1950) i. ii. 26 Now, one would think at this time of the year the homeward-bounders from China would be pretty thick here.
1972 A. Bennett Getting On i. 33 Now. I never forget a face. That, unless I'm very much mistaken is my son.
1993 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Misreadings 138 Now then, the caravel exploits the propulsion system known as ventus et vela, that is, wind and sail.
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