| 单词 | to take time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (the) time (a) to take (the) time: to allow oneself sufficient time (to do something); not to hurry over something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [phrase] to take (the) time1567 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. vii. 630 Hereafter, M. Harding, ye maie take time, to studie for somme better quarel. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 83 Take time to pawse. View more context for this quotation 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Temporize..also, to delay, to take time to consider. 1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 40 I will take time to solve your Difficulty. 1782 E. Pendleton Let. 29 Oct. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 418 The Court took time..to declare their opinions, and then delivered them Sereatim upon the whole case. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 714 We cannot cut the knot: we must, therefore, take time to untie it. 1850 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 367 I dislike to take the time to study out laboriously and guessingly..these things which are mostly well known to botanists. 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 57/1 I am too much in earnest to care that you should decide all at once. Take time over it. 1904 M. W. Pickthall Enid xxxix. 337 Christmas took refuge in dignified silence while he finished his drink, taking time over it to show them he was at ease. 1953 Jet 4 June 58 The officers said that after breaking into the apartment, Warwick took time for a hot bath. 1988 R. Turnbull Fisher's World: Canada 92 Anyone who takes the time to examine Toronto's coat-of-arms sees a shield with three lions passant. 2005 GQ Sept. 178/2 Take time to check out the house rules too. < as lemmas |
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