Elapse
[ɪ'læps]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
校對:诺艾尔
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Pass, lapse, glide away, slip away, pass away.
安妮編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pass, slip, lapse, glide_away, intervene
ANT:Wait, abide, hold, continue, halt, endure
編輯:摩尔
解釋/意思:
v.i. to slip or glide away: to pass silently as time.—n. Elap′sion.
哈里特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the few hours that I can possibly allow to elapse before I publish the truth, how is he to be found by us, and only by us? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Emmy was calculating eagerly the time that would elapse before the letter would arrive and be answered. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She began to count the long days, and months, and years which must elapse, before he would be restored to a private station, and unreservedly to her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But it was winter now, and months must elapse before we are hurled from our security. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The copse shall be firewood ere five years elapse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A few days were allowed to elapse (as a precaution agreed to by both parties) before the jewel was actually taken out of the bank. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As Parker promised to return to Fanny in a week, she grew uneasy when almost a fortnight had elapsed without seeing or even hearing from him. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Some days elapsed, and it appeared she was not likely to take much of a fancy to anybody in the house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Two hundred years, nearly, elapsed before the next important advance in horology. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- How much time elapsed between your turning the corner and your discovery that the road was clear? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A very long time elapsed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- During the few minutes that elapsed while I was taking him in, the air revived him, and he ascended the steps of the machine with my assistance. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The tree drains rapidly, the full supply of milk being generally obtained within a few hours, but an interval of several years usually elapses before it will yield a fresh supply. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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