time

n.
1. years of one’s life. age年岁，年纪。
△Gent. 2. 7. 48:“greater time”.i. e.more years. older in age 年纪更大一此。
△ Rom. 4. 1. 60: “thy long-experienced time，”i. e. your wisdom of age. 你的多年的阅历。
△Lr. 1.1.298 (295):“The best and soundest of his time hathbeen but rash:” 他在最好、最健全的年岁时也是鲁莽的。
△2H.IV. 2. 1. 74 (66):“Doth this become ( = befit) your place,your time,and business?”这跟你的地位、你的年纪、你的职位适合吗？
2. lifetime,duration of being in this world,workinglife 一生，寿命，劳碌的一生。
△As. 2. 7. 142: “And oneman in his time plays many parts,/ His acts beingseven ages. ”一个人在一牛中扮演着好几个角色，他的表演可以分为七个时期。
△Oth.1.1.47: “Wears out his time, much like his master’s ass,/ For nought but provender，”消耗了一生，活像主人的驴子，只为了一把草料。
△Oth.1.1. 162(161): “And what’s to come of my despisedtime/Is nought but bitterness.” (my despised time:the rest of my life,in which people will look withscorn on me)我这受人鄙视的余生就只剩下辛酸，此外什么也没有了。
△1H.IV.3.2. 151: “Yea,even the slightestworship of his time，”是的，哪怕他一生中最微小的荣誉也不放过。
3. period of life人生时期，人生阶段。
△Mer.1.1.130(129):“my time something too prodigal”，我过去挥金如土的时光。
4. prime青春，壮年。
△Rom.4.4.11: “Ay,you have been a mouse-hunt in your time，”是呀，你年轻的时候就是追女人的好手。
5. present period现时代。
△Lr.4.1.46: “’Tis the time’s plague,when madmen lead the blind.”疯子领着瞎子走，乃是这个时代的灾难。
6. present moment 目前时刻。
△Lr.5.3. 235 (234):“The time will not allow the compliment/Which very manners urges.”这样的时刻不容许我们讲究文雅举止所不可缺少的礼节。
7. present circumstances,present state of affairs目前境况，现今事态。
△2H.IV.1.1. 9:“The times are wild，”时局动荡不安。
△2H.IV.1.3.110: “We are time’s subjects. and time bids be gone.”我们是受时势支配的人，时势命令我们立刻动身。
△R.III.5.3.98 (97): “the leisure and the fearful time / Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love”，紧迫的时间和令人忧虑的形势打断了礼貌上的倾诉衷曲。
△Lr.5.3. 31 (30): “Know thou this,that men Are as the time is；”你要知道，人总要识时务。
8. the age in which one lives,temporary life; (hence) world,society一个人生活的时代，人生；（转义）人世，社会
△Mac.1.5.64 (63): “To beguile the time,/Look like the time；” 要欺骗世人，必须做出和世人一样的神情。
△Mac.4.3.72:“the time you may so hoodwink.”这样你就可以蒙骗住世人。
△Mac.5.7.53 (5.8.24): “And live to be the show and gaze o’ the time.”i.e.to be the object of show and gaze of the world. 活着当展览品，让世人观看。
△Ham.3.1.70 (69): “bear the whips and scorns of time，”忍受时代(又译：人世)的鞭挞和嘲弄。
9. one’s contemporaries,the people 当代人，人民。
△Mac.5.7.84 (5.9.21): “the time is free.” i.e. The people now enjoy liberty. 国人得到自由了。
10. men,people around one人们，周围的人们。
△R.III.5.3.93 (92): “With best advantage will deceive the time，”我要尽可能找机会蒙骗我周围那些人们。
11. period of history,era,age历史时期，时代。
△1H.IV.1.2.173 (156): “for the poor abuses of the time want countenance.”因为在这种年头，不景气的歪门邪道正需要贵人赞助。
△H.V.2.4.83: “the ordinance of times，” i.e. the established usage of ages; the time-honoured law.年代久远的惯例。
12. precise moment of time,particular set of circumstances 一定的时刻，特殊的情境。
△Ham.4.7. 111: “But that I know love is begun by time，”不过我知道爱心是时间引起的。
13. course of events,season proper or appropriated to something事态发展，合适时候。
△1H.IV.4.2.60 (54):“’tis more than time that I were there,and you too,but my powers are there already.”我早就该到那里了，你也一样，不过我的部队已经到那里了。
△H.VIII.5.1.35:“further,sir,/Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments,/With which the time will load him.”此外，先生，他现在身居要津，有的是肥缺，又走上更多升迁的坦途，到时候好机会都会一一给他的。
14. occasion 时机。
△Tw. 3.1.71 (63 ): “and the time；”以及时机。
15. fortune命运。
△H.VIII. 5. 1. 19 (20): “The fruit she goes with/I pray for heartily,that it may find/ Good time(i.e. good fortune,or,good time to be born),and live；”我衷心为她所孕育的果实而祈祷，但愿它能在吉日良辰诞生并且成活。
16. eventuality,emergency不测事件，紧急情况。
△Lr.5.1.54:“We will greet the time.”i.e. We will meet the emergency. 我们会迎上去对付紧急情况的。
17. lifetime,life,i.e.reign 一生，（指）统治。
△1H.IV.3.2.36: “The hope and expectation of thy time/ Isruined,and the soul of every man/ Prophetically doforethink thy fall.”i.e. every man in his innermostbeing expects that you will be ruined. 大家对你一生的希望和期待都化为泡影，每个人从心灵里都在预测你的倾覆。
18. musical measure（音乐）节拍。
△Oth.4.1.93 (92):“But yet keep time in all.”i.e. But be controlled or restrained. 但要注意克制。(又译：要看准时机。)
Phrases & Expressions:
at a time: at some time,on some occasion在某个时候，在某种场合下。
△Oth.2.3.320 (313): “You,or any man living,may be drunk at a time,man.”你，或者任何活人，总会有喝醉的时候。
fair (good) time of day: good day日安，白天好。
△H.V.5.2.2: “Unto our brother France (i.e.the King of France),and to our sister (i.e.the Queen of France),/Health and fair time of day；”对于我们的法兰西皇兄和王嫂，谨祝健康安好。
give the time of day: exchange the day’s greetings, say good morning相互问好，问早安。
△2H.VI.3.1. 13:“But meet him now,and,be it in the morn,/ Wheneveryone will give the time of day,/He knits hisbrow and shows an angry eye,/And passeth by withstiff unbowed knee，”但是你现在碰见他，哪怕是在早晨，人人都要互相问个好，他却皱着眉头、怒目而视，膝盖直挺挺地也不弯下就走过去。
in good time: ❶at the right moment,opportunely, aptly正是时候，及时地，恰当地。
△R.III.2.1.45:“And in good time,/ Here comes Sir Richard Ratcliffe and the Duke. ” 恰好，理查· 拉特克里夫爵士和公爵来了。
△R.III.3.1.24: “And in good time,here comes the sweating lord. ”真巧，这位大人流着汗来了。
△Gent.1.3.44:”And in good time!now will we break with him.”他来得正是时候！ 我们现在就要对他谈谈。
❷on a seasonable occasion,in the near future在一个恰好的时机，在不久的将来。
△H.V. 5. Ch. 31:“As in good time he may,fromIreland coming，”也可能在不久的将来，从爱尔兰归来。small time: short lifetime短短的一生。
△H.V.5.2.407(Epil. 5): “Small time,but in that small mostgreatly lived/ This star of England.”(Henry V diedat 35,after a reign of nine years,1413-1422.) 短短的一生，但在这短暂之中却有一颗英国的明星曾发出了万丈光芒。(又译：短短的时间，但在这短短的时间里要演出一颗英国的明星的光辉事迹。)
state of time: state of the times,state of affairs时局，事态。
△1H.IV. 4. 1.25:“I would the state of time hadfirst been whole / Ere he by sickness had been visi-ted，”我真希望他能够等到时局稳定下来之后再害病不迟。take the time: seize the opportunity 抓住机会。
△3H. VI. 5. 1. 48: “Come,Warwick,take the time,kneel down,kneel down.” (Proverb: “Take timewhen time comes.”)来，沃里克，抓住机会，跪下吧，跪下吧。take time: take one’s time从从容容地干。
△3H.VI.14. 108:“And whilst we breathe,take time to do himdead.”我们一边休息，一边从从容容把他杀死。
the time has been: ❶ there was a time从前有过那么一个时候。
△Mac. 3. 4. 78 (77): “The time has beenThat,when the brains were out,the man would die,/And there an end；”从前有过那么一个时候，脑袋打破，人就死了，事情也就了结。
❷there was a time when... 从前有过那么 一个时候。
△ Mac. 5. 5. 10: “The time has been,mysenses would have cooled / To hear a night-shriek；”i. e. when my senses would have turned cold to hear ashriek in the night.从前我曾经听见一声夜间的号叫就吓得浑身发冷。
the times: these times,the present age,the presentor existing circumstances当代，当前情况。
△2H.IV. 1. 370:“as the times do brawl，” i.e. in view of the pres-ent disturbances,in these violent times. 由于当前争斗四起。
time and the hour: time which is made up of. orcounted by,hours; time and tide; time and the righthour or opportunity （以时刻组成或计算的）时间；时与潮；时间与机会。
△Mac. 1. 3. 146:“Come what come may,/Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”要发生什么就发生什么，最多事的日子总会慢慢度过。
time enough: in time及时。
△ Com. 4. 1. 41:“No,bear it with you,lest I come not time enough.”不，你带着吧，因为我也许不能及时赶到那里。
time enough to go to bed with a candle: (an evasiveanswer) either before dark or after dark: sometimetonight有的是时间点起蜡烛上床；大概今天晚上吧。
△1H.IV.2. 1. 48 (43): “Time enough to go to bed with a can-dle,I warrant thee.”我告诉你，反正到那时候总能点起蜡烛上床。
time of scorn: scornful world,scornful age心存轻蔑的世人，充满轻蔑的时代。
△ Oth. 4. 2. 52 (53):“tomake me / The fixed figure for the time of scorn / Topoin t his slow unmoving finger at!”叫我在这充满轻蔑的时代，做了世人拿指头不断指指点点的对象！
what time: at the time when在那时。
△3H.VI.2. 5.3:“What time the shepherd,blowing of his nails,Can neither call it perfect day nor night.”在那时，牧羊人往自己的指头上呵气，说不清那究竟是大白天还是夜晚。

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