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单词 what o'clock is it?
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what o'clock is it?
b. In direct and indirect questions. † what is o'clock?: what is the time? (obsolete). what o'clock is it?: what time is it? Also in extended use: to know (also find) what o'clock it is: to know (or discover) the real state of things. Now historical and rare.
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c1525 Vox Populi 374 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 281 I knowe not whates a clocke, But by the countre cocke.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. x. sig. Liiiv She..opened the locke, And lookt in the bag, what it was a clocke.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Diall set vpon a chymney or wall to knowe what is a clocke by the sunne, sciotericon.
1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xxiv. sig. N3 At your seruice, hath beene so conuersant, as one asking, what's a Clock?
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 293 I pray you, what i'st a clocke ? View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xv. sig. Ff8 To know what a Clock it was.
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 443 A drowzy Watchman, that just gives a knock, And breaks our rest, to tell us what's a clock.
γ. 1718 M. Prior Alma iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 369 'Tis the Stomach's solid Stroke, That tells his Being, what's a Clock.1739 H. Baker Cheats of Scapin ii. v. 219 Leander. Did you keep the Watch? Scapin. Yes, Sir, that I might see what o'clock it is.1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Whatten o'clock is't?1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 33 Our governor's wide awake, he is... He knows what's o'clock.1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind i. 3 When he woke he got up like an earthquake, and then young Diamond knew what o'clock it was.1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 94 You've learnt your lesson, found out what's o'clock.1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear i. iii. 47 ‘Halloa!’ he cried, excitedly, drawing the window curtain to one side. ‘What o'clock were those curtains drawn?’1932 E. Le Gallienne & F. Friebus Alice in Wonderland i. 32 What a funny watch! It tells the days of the month and doesn't tell what o'clock it is.1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman xvi. 238 He saw Miss Morville rise from a chair beside the fire, and cross the room towards him, and said faintly: ‘Good heavens, what o'clock is it?’2002 J. Burke Eighteen (2004) 289 You may call me a rattlepate and tell me I don't know what's o'clock.
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