英语词汇“to take a rain check”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. More generally: an assurance that an obligation or offer will be fulfilled or renewed at a later date. to take a rain check: to ask that an arrangement be postponed or an offer taken up at a later date (frequently with the implication that the offer is being declined altogether).

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > suspend judgement

to take a rain check1899

1899 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gaz. 28 Apr. 4/1 The gist of Coghlan's speech is that the team was all ready and waiting for Dewey to say ‘play ball’, and the captain refuses to part with his rain check.

1903 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 6 Mar. 10/7 If you expect to do anything to make people remember you it is time to get at it. St Peter isn't going to issue any rain checks.

1914 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 1 June 6/1 Any peacefully disposed observer will doubtless be ready to take a rain check for the rest of this Howard-Martin feud.

1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xi. 70 The Sternwoods have money. All it has bought them is a rain check.

1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xiv. 141 ‘Let me take a rain-check.’ ‘On a love affair?’ I said.

1977 Time 14 Nov. 41/3 Unless he can cash his rain check by early 1978, the President will run smack into France's March elections.

1999 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Dec. 29 The return in spectral form of a dead parent given a brief rain-check from heaven to bring their relationships with their loved ones to..closure.

2000 S. Kinsella Secret Dreamworld Shopaholic xxiii. 303 ‘Actually, I think I'll take a rain-check.’‘You mean..’ Suze pauses. ‘You mean you don't want to go shopping?’‘Exactly.’

单词	to take a rain check
释义	> as lemmas to take a rain check 2. More generally: an assurance that an obligation or offer will be fulfilled or renewed at a later date. to take a rain check: to ask that an arrangement be postponed or an offer taken up at a later date (frequently with the implication that the offer is being declined altogether). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > suspend judgement to take a rain check1899 1899 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gaz. 28 Apr. 4/1 The gist of Coghlan's speech is that the team was all ready and waiting for Dewey to say ‘play ball’, and the captain refuses to part with his rain check. 1903 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 6 Mar. 10/7 If you expect to do anything to make people remember you it is time to get at it. St Peter isn't going to issue any rain checks. 1914 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 1 June 6/1 Any peacefully disposed observer will doubtless be ready to take a rain check for the rest of this Howard-Martin feud. 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xi. 70 The Sternwoods have money. All it has bought them is a rain check. 1976 L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xiv. 141 ‘Let me take a rain-check.’ ‘On a love affair?’ I said. 1977 Time 14 Nov. 41/3 Unless he can cash his rain check by early 1978, the President will run smack into France's March elections. 1999 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Dec. 29 The return in spectral form of a dead parent given a brief rain-check from heaven to bring their relationships with their loved ones to..closure. 2000 S. Kinsella Secret Dreamworld Shopaholic xxiii. 303 ‘Actually, I think I'll take a rain-check.’‘You mean..’ Suze pauses. ‘You mean you don't want to go shopping?’‘Exactly.’ extracted from rain checkn. < as lemmas
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