Untimely
[ʌn'taɪmlɪ] or [ʌn'taɪmli]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
(adv.) Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.
杰拉尔德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Ill-timed, unseasonable, mistimed, inopportune, premature, out of season.
ad. Unseasonably, unsuitably, MALAPROPOS, at an unsuitable time.
格思里整理
解釋/意思:
adj. not timely: before the time premature: unseasonable ill-timed.—adv. (Shak.) before the time: prematurely unseasonably.—n. Untime′liness.—adj. Untime′ous untimely unseasonable.—adv. Untime′ously.
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例句/造句/用法:
- No implicated man or woman took untimely courage, or made a self-betraying step. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- What made him seek this quarter of the house at an untimely season, when he should have been asleep in bed? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He was prevented, by an untimely end, from bringing his invention to any degree of perfection. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Peace, and move on, said Cedric, his anger at this untimely jest being checked by the recollection of Wamba's recent services. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- When I remembered where I was at that untimely hour, a feeling stole upon me that made me get up, afraid of I don't know what, and walk about. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It is not for nothing that I have turned myself out of bed at the untimely hour of six. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Margaret, what comment can I make on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Was he the only passenger who came on board at that untimely hour? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- A gathering call ran among the faculties, their bugles sang, their trumpets rang an untimely summons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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