untime
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The absence of time; timelessness.
— Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the faithful of Desh.
- A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time.
动词 v.
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To cause to be done at the wrong time.
— […] which untimes the pleasant melodies of musical harmony, […]
形容词 adj.
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Untimely.
— Untime cravings
词汇关系
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词源
词源 1
From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
词源 2
From Middle English untime, from Old English untīme.
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