单词 | what then |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat then (h) what then: what happens or would happen in that case; what of that (cf. then adv. 4). ΚΠ a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) ix. l. 54 What þenn? dampne we þe olde? 1564 Briefe Exam. ****ij What then? Did he not appoynt temperall rites? a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iv. 23 Say I do speake with her (my Lord) what then? 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iv. 108 But if..they..dropt off and left me one by one, what then? 1899 H. G. Wells Star in Peterson Mag. Dec. 1194/2 Stop a planet in its flight, rob it of its centrifugal force, what then? Centripetal has it, and down it falls into the sun! 2012 Independent 20 Jan. 17/4 What if I never get to sleep? What then? < as lemmas |
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