| 单词 | weather permitting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweather (also funds, health, etc.) permitting b. intransitive. weather (also funds, health, etc.) permitting: if the state of the weather (funds, health, etc.) is favourable, sufficiently good, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [phrase] > weather permitting weather (also funds, health, etc.) permitting1651 w.p.1889 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 77. 1194 We hope now (the season permitting) to fall to field action. 1704 Dict. Rusticum 71/2 As soon as the Swarm has entred the Hive, they immediately (the Weather permitting) gather Wax and build Combs. 1712 London Gaz. No. 4953/4 The Edgley Gally will be ready to Sail.., Wind and Weather permitting. 1840 C. Brown Jrnl. in J. Keats Lett. (1958) I. i. 422 ‘Weather permitting’, unless of the bad and excessive kind, was not of much force in our agreement. 1852 C. Brontë Let. 6 Dec. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. xi. 272 I shall have pleasure, papa's health permitting, in availing myself of her invitation. 1886 Standing Orders, Southern District §12 Weather permitting, the 1st Post at Tattoo..will be sounded on the road opposite the Main Guard. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 582 It was not so dear, purse permitting, a few guineas at the outside. 1978 T. Allbeury Lantern Network iii. 32 Arms..will be dropped to your instructions, weather permitting. 1997 Appl. Linguistics 18 56 Ideally, technology permitting, it would be better to change the rate [of speech] ‘on-the-fly’. weather permitting weather permitting phr. often appended to an announcement (e.g. of the sailing of a vessel) to indicate that it is conditional on the weather being favourable.extracted from weathern.< as lemmas |
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