英語

编辑

詞源

编辑

仿譯德語 übermorgen;等價於 over- +‎ morrow。對照荷蘭語 overmorgen德語 übermorgen瑞典語 övermorgon丹麥語 overmorgen書面挪威語 overmorgen(亦作 overimorgen)和新挪威語 overmorgon

發音

编辑

副詞

编辑

overmorrow (不可比)

  1. (古舊) 後天,兩天後
    反義詞:(氣愈) ereyesterday
    • 1535, Myles Coverdale, The Byble, that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Teſtament, faythfully tranſlated into Englyſhe[1], Tobit 8:4,第 D.iiij 頁:
      Thē ſpake Tobias unto the virgin, and ſayde: Up Sara, let us make oure prayer unto God to daye, tomorow, and ouermorow: for theſe thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure ſelues with God: and whan the thirde holy night is paſt, we ſhall ioyne together in ye deutye of mariage.
      (Then spoke Tobias to the virgin and said: Get up Sara, let's make our prayer to the God today, tomorrow and overmorrow: for these nights will we recognize ourselves with God: and when the third holy night is past, we shall join together in our duty of marriage.)
      然後托比亞斯對處女說:起來薩拉,讓我們今天、明天和後天向上帝祈禱:因為這三個夜晚我們將與上帝和解,當第三個神聖的夜晚過去時,我們將共同加入婚姻的責任。
    • 1925, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report[2], 第 188 卷, H.M. Stationery Off.,第 iv 頁:
      We can go not overmorrow, but on Thursday.
      我們可以後天不去,星期四去。
    • 1969, James Klugman, 引 Bucharin, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike, 1925-1927[3], 第 2 卷, London: Lawrence & Wishart,第 73 頁:
      Sinowjeff and myself go to Caucasus overmorrow.
      Sinowjeff 和我後天去高加索。

名詞

编辑

overmorrow (不可數)

  1. (古舊) 後天,兩天後
    反義詞:(棄用) ereyesterday
    • 1898, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 譯者 Thos. E. Webb, The first part of the Tragedy of Faust in English, Longmans, Green and Co.,197:
      My prescient limbs already borrow
      From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
      It comes round on the overmorrow [譯 übermorgen]
      Then why we are awake we know.
      (請為本引文添加中文翻譯

參見

编辑

參考資料

编辑