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elapsed

/ih-laps/US // ɪˈlæps //UK // (ɪˈlæps) //

过期的,过期,过时的,过期时间

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    e·lapsed, e·laps·ing.

    • : to slip or pass by: Thirty minutes elapsed before the performance began.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the passage or termination of a period of time; lapse.

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Examples

  • But by the time a critical wanted poster sent via fax arrived, more than two hours elapsed.

  • Forty-five minutes were estimated to have elapsed from the time the stabbing began until the killer left.

  • During the moment which elapsed between her reply and my answer I thought of a thousand responses to that innocent confession.

  • More than a year elapsed before Hawes found an attorney willing to handle the pardon request.

  • The 24 years that have elapsed have already blurred the small details, the memories and the feelings.

  • As so much time has elapsed since the orders were given, the persons that ordered them are quite impotent.

  • Smoke not before breakfast, nor till an hour has elapsed after a good meal.

  • The inscription of the Rupuath Rock has the words: "Two hundred and fifty years have elapsed since the departure of the teacher."

  • Not until forty-four years had elapsed did she renew her acquaintance with the family in the person of Peter Ilich.

  • Pernambuco had during the half century which had elapsed since the expulsion of the Dutch had time to recruit.