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单词 upon the spot
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upon the spot
d. upon the spot.
(a) Then and there, straight away, at once; = on the spot adv. 1.Often the sense ‘at that very location’ is also present to some degree, and so this use may overlap with the sense in Phrases 1d(b).
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1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 3 Then have at all, the pass is got, For coming off, oh name it not: Who would not die upon the spot.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 229 Had I drank as much as my neighbours, I had dy'd upon the spot.
1747 B. Kennicott Two Diss. ii. 168 Cain, had he only been with his Brother, would certainly have slain him upon the spot.
1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 193 This sum shall, when the marriage takes place, be paid upon the spot.
1819 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 18 Dec. 449 The next best thing to being able to answer upon the spot, is, to be able to answer the next day.
1880 Tinsley's Mag. Nov. 471/1 All the prisoners taken are to be shot upon the spot.
1922 L. V. Rule Pioneering in Masonry xv. 210 Working himself in a perfect frenzy over the thought of losing his money, he died upon the spot.
1969 Church Hist. 38 352 He taught that ministers should aim at and expect the regeneration of sinners upon the spot, before they left the church.
2011 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 17 This was a poor, panicked decision made upon the spot.
(b) At the very place or locality in question; at the scene of the event; = on the spot adv. 2.
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1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes V. ix. ii. 121 An object both terrible and glorious, both was to be seen in the wood, for eight or ten men might be seen dead upon the spot.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 209 The Prizes..for those that perform'd best, were ready upon the spot, and made part of the Procession.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 361 The two Merchants..who liv'd just upon the Spot, and who..were very rich.
1741 R. Challoner Mem. Missionary Priests I. Pref. sig. A2v Grave contemporary Writers, informed by such as were upon the Spot, or themselves Eye-witnesses, of what they write.
1779 T. Paine in Pennsylvania Packet 14 Sept. 2/3 He is now upon the spot and can any day demand an hearing of Congress.
1834 A. Greaves Æsop, Junior, in Amer. vii. 9 Did you so? cried the Hog, who was still upon the spot.
1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing II. xv. 50 She..drove over to Broom Leas in state,..feeling that at least it would be a satisfaction to her to be upon the spot.
?1906 E. S. Ellis & C. F. Horne Story of Greatest Nations (new ed.) IV. lxvi. 664 He had been upon the spot and knew the magnitude of the disaster that had befallen the oppressor.
1952 Illustr. London News 8 Nov. 754/3 Skill and training..have to be imported because they are not to be found upon the spot.
2015 Western Morning News (Nexis) 23 May (Property section) The stone with which it [sc. the hotel] was built came from the hill on which it stood and was carved and formed upon the spot.
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