单词 | one day |
释义 | > as lemmasone day (a) one day. extracted from dayn. (i) On a certain (but unspecified) day in the past. [Compare also Old English ānes dæges in the same sense (showing adverbial use of the genitive case) and some day at Phrases 4d(a)(i).] ΚΠ OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) v. 17 Ða wæs anum dæge [L. in una dierum] geworden þæt he sæt & hig lærde. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19458 Godess gast off heffne comm..An daȝȝ att unnderrn time. 1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. Aiiijv Anthistenes seing the lyghtnes of the people of Athens came one day amonges theym, and gaue them counsayle. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. xi. 53 Had it not been, to revenge himself one day, upon the Spaniards. 1719 D. Defoe Robinson Crusoe 72 One Day walking with my Gun in my Hand by the Sea-side, I was very pensive upon the Subject of my present Condition. 1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 108/1 Sam returned one day, weak, ague-shaken, demented, but still fondly, foolishly faithful. 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. in John Bull's Other Island 282 I moralized and starved until one day I swore that I would be a full-fed free man at all costs. 2013 Vanity Fair Mar. 290/1 One day, no one knows exactly when, agents stopped messengering scripts around town. (ii) On an unspecified day in the future. Cf. some day (sense Phrases 4d(a)(ii)). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day yeteOE hereafter1154 hereafterwardc1386 sometimec1386 oncea1393 whiloma1400 rather or latera1450 one of these daysa1470 one day1477 umquhile1489 in timea1500 with time?1531 sooner or later1577 odd shortly1681 some summer's day1697 first or last1700 some of these (‥) days1831 someday1898 down the road (also track)1924 1477 Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale Prol. in Whan that Apprill with his Shouris Sote (Caxton) Parfay sayst thou one day he reken shal When that his tayl shal brenne in the glede For he not helpith the nedful in her nede. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. ccxxxiiiiv/2 I ensure you one day he wyll take so cruell vengeance on you that all the worlde shall speke therof. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. ii. 21 The King will know him one day . View more context for this quotation 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 57 I'll make you one Day sup Sorrow for this. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 2 A gracious, benevolent, and all-powerful being, who would one day redress all wrongs and recompense all pain. 1945 T. Williams 27 Wagons Cotton 217 One day I will look in the mirror and I will see that my hair is beginning to turn grey. 2001 M. Ravenhill Mother Clap's Molly House ii. viii. 85 One day I'm just gonna up and go. one day one day: on a particular day in the past; on some unspecified day in the future. Cf. day n. Phrases 4b(a)(i).extracted from oneadj.n.pron.< as lemmas |
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