英语词汇“to do time”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. colloquial. to do (one's) time and variants.

(a) Originally Criminals' slang. To spend time in prison for an offence. Cf. sense A. 8b.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)] > serve sentence

serve1830

to do (one's) time1865

max1971

1865 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 26 Feb. 12/2 He continued, ‘I had nothing to do with the shawl robbery..nor Johnson's—I was doing time (meaning, I was in prison).’

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xli People can't be expected to associate with men that have ‘done time’.

1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xiii. 185 He did his ‘time’ without protest.

1932 L. E. Lawes 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1943–4) viii. 268 The aristocrat in prison is the prisoner who has learned how to do his time.

1963 Social Probl. 11 198 Don't do the crime unless you can do the time.

1984 M. A. Jarman Dancing nightly in Tavern 49 ‘You did some time?’ Luke asks. ‘In the Fort. Got picked up running smoke from Vancouver.’

2010 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 37/3 A former member of NAMBLA..doing time at Limon for sexual exploitation of a child.

(b) To spend a period of time in a specified situation or position (typically doing a job or task), esp. one regarded as obligatory but unpleasant.

ΚΠ

1897 Academy 3 July (Fiction Suppl.) 26/2 Mr. Griffith's leading character is a revivified mummy... The women of the book, one of whom has also done time as a mummy, are superfluous.

1912 Assembly Herald Dec. 657/1 Every young Mormon who looks forward to social, political or ecclesiastical preferment must be ready to ‘do time’ as a missionary.

1959 D. Lessing Each in his own Wilderness 43 When I was doing my time in his office I was permanently amazed at the way all the women were ready to lie down and let him walk all over them.

1971 P. Larkin Let. 6 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 445 I'm doing time as Librarian of the U. of Hull, & really haven't much connection with Coventry left.

2004 N.Y. Mag. 6 Sept. 26/1 Did you do your time in two-bedroom apartments you shared with three actors, two magazine fact-checkers, and a crystal-meth-addled pastry chef?

单词	to do time
释义	> as lemmas to do (one's) time d. colloquial. to do (one's) time and variants. (a) Originally Criminals' slang. To spend time in prison for an offence. Cf. sense A. 8b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)] > serve sentence serve1830 to do (one's) time1865 max1971 1865 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 26 Feb. 12/2 He continued, ‘I had nothing to do with the shawl robbery..nor Johnson's—I was doing time (meaning, I was in prison).’ 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xli People can't be expected to associate with men that have ‘done time’. 1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xiii. 185 He did his ‘time’ without protest. 1932 L. E. Lawes 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1943–4) viii. 268 The aristocrat in prison is the prisoner who has learned how to do his time. 1963 Social Probl. 11 198 Don't do the crime unless you can do the time. 1984 M. A. Jarman Dancing nightly in Tavern 49 ‘You did some time?’ Luke asks. ‘In the Fort. Got picked up running smoke from Vancouver.’ 2010 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 37/3 A former member of NAMBLA..doing time at Limon for sexual exploitation of a child. (b) To spend a period of time in a specified situation or position (typically doing a job or task), esp. one regarded as obligatory but unpleasant. ΚΠ 1897 Academy 3 July (Fiction Suppl.) 26/2 Mr. Griffith's leading character is a revivified mummy... The women of the book, one of whom has also done time as a mummy, are superfluous. 1912 Assembly Herald Dec. 657/1 Every young Mormon who looks forward to social, political or ecclesiastical preferment must be ready to ‘do time’ as a missionary. 1959 D. Lessing Each in his own Wilderness 43 When I was doing my time in his office I was permanently amazed at the way all the women were ready to lie down and let him walk all over them. 1971 P. Larkin Let. 6 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 445 I'm doing time as Librarian of the U. of Hull, & really haven't much connection with Coventry left. 2004 N.Y. Mag. 6 Sept. 26/1 Did you do your time in two-bedroom apartments you shared with three actors, two magazine fact-checkers, and a crystal-meth-addled pastry chef? extracted from timen.int.conj. < as lemmas
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