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单词 times past
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times past
b. More vaguely: a period of time distinguished (generally by an adjective or other modifier) as being in the past, present, or future with reference to the present moment. In later use frequently in plural, as ancient times, times past (see past adj. 2), etc.
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OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 53 Hi wæron swa ær geo on ealdum dagum swa ðæt nis nan swa eald man þe hi nu on þisne timan mage geþencan oððe ær for fela gearan mihte gemunan swa gefyrn swa hi þine yldran wæron.
OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) lv. 332 Si qua id est aliqua est presentis temporis lętitia ita est agenda ut numquam amaritudo sequentis iudicii recedat a memoria : gif ænig ys andwerdes timan bliss swa heo ys to donne þæt næfre biternyss fyligendes domes gewite fram gemynde.
lOE Writ of Edward the Confessor (Sawyer 1121) in F. E. Harmer Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952) 344 Ic ann þæt þridde treow..of æuesan þæs..wudes..se is gemæne swa he onn ældum timum gelegd wæs.
lOE St. Neot (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 131 Eala, þu king, mycel scealt þu þoligen on þyssen life. On þan towearden time, swa mycele angsumnysse þu gebiden scealt, þæt nan mænnisc tunge hit eall asecgen ne mæig.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 35 All ðis halie mihte hes makede hem swiete...Swa hie doð ȝiet on ðese time munekes, kanunekes, ancres, and eremites.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 192 Fram þe biginning of þe world to þe time þat now is Seuene ages þer habbeþ ibe.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 53 Hopyng in tyme comyng to haue ben encresyd.
c1440 tr. R. Rolle Oleum Effusum (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 4 Þay sall Ioye nowe..and in tym to come.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 107 Þe paynys þat er ordand..for syn in tyme to com.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. ii. 88 In tyme passid the philosophres dyde the same.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 6 It has beyne seyne in thir tymys bywent.
1510 R. Copland in tr. Kynge Appolyn of Thyre Prol. sig. Aiv In tyme past hystoriagraphes dayly wrote..of..aduentures and fortunes happy and malfortunate.
1529 Act 21 Henry VIII c. 16 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 299 The great scarcyte of grayne and vytell at this present tyme.
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 2 In times past [they] haue..bene noted to haue had the most substanciall coloured wollen clothes.
1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. xxxviii Worthelie the pictures of Princes, Gouernours and Magistrates in auncient tymes doe shewe this.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 259 A towne in ancient time of great fame.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 74 Blood hath bene shed ere now, i' th' olden time . View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 436 In Times to come, My Waves shall wash the Walls of mighty Rome.
1706 Boston News-let. 28 Oct. 4/1 To Issue forth this Proclamation for the better preventing of such mischiefs for time to come.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. 26/1 The Maltese little dogs were..much esteemed by the fine ladies of past times.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 715 Encomium in old time was poet's work.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 214 Many devout ministers and professors in times past had enjoyed downright revelation.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 86 It is a folly, man, A superstition of these modern times.
1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. I. 276 Like dengue, influenza, and others of the ‘posting’ fevers of former time.
1911 C. B. Crampton Vegetation Caithness iv. 51 In recent times..Sphagnum bogs have been reduced to their present small proportion in the moorland associations.
1917 H. Greene Unhallowed Harvest xx. 361 The workingmen who had followed him blindly and confidently in times past had now turned upon him.
1957 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 17 Nov. (1995) 262 There is I suppose applicability in my story to present times.
1989 A. Ballance Ocracokers p. ix For all that might happen to the island in time to come, it will always have its past.
2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 211 The gorgonopsids..whose fearsome canine teeth make one think of the sabretoothed cats..of later times.
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