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gain time

/tahym/US // taɪm //UK // (taɪm) //

获得时间,获取时间,收益时间,收获时间

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point点,地点,指点,观点generation代,代人,代的,代代相传past过去,过去的,过去的事情,过去的事second第二,其次,第二个,第二位turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变space空间,空间的,太空,场地life生活,生命,寿命,人生season季,季候,季候性moment瞬间,时候,瞬时,矩date日期day天,日,一天,白天present目前,现在,当前stage阶段,舞台,阶段性,阶段性的term术语,任期,条款,期age年龄,年龄段,年龄大小,年龄大小的问题pace步伐,步调,步速,步伐一致while而,虽然,同时future未来,未来的,今后,今后的era时代,时期,时代的发展,时代的到来occasion机会,场合,时机,偶尔

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
    • : duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.
    • : a system or method of measuring or reckoning the passage of time: mean time; apparent time; Greenwich Time.
    • : a limited period or interval, as between two successive events: a long time.
    • : a particular period considered as distinct from other periods: Youth is the best time of life.
    • : Often times . a period in the history of the world, or contemporary with the life or activities of a notable person: prehistoric times; in Lincoln's time.the period or era now or previously present: a sign of the times; How times have changed!a period considered with reference to its events or prevailing conditions, tendencies, ideas, etc.: hard times; a time of war.
    • : a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life, for payment of a debt, etc.
    • : the end of a prescribed or allotted period, as of one's life or a pregnancy: His time had come, but there was no one left to mourn over him. When her time came, her husband accompanied her to the delivery room.
    • : a period with reference to personal experience of a specified kind: to have a good time; a hot time in the old town tonight.
    • : a period of work of an employee, or the pay for it; working hours or days or an hourly or daily pay rate.
    • : Informal. a term of enforced duty or imprisonment: to serve time in the army; do time in prison.
    • : the period necessary for or occupied by something: The time of the baseball game was two hours and two minutes. The bus takes too much time, so I'll take a plane.
    • : leisure time; sufficient or spare time: to have time for a vacation; I have no time to stop now.
    • : a particular or definite point in time, as indicated by a clock: What time is it?
    • : a particular part of a year, day, etc.; season or period: It's time for lunch.
    • : an appointed, fit, due, or proper instant or period: a time for sowing; the time when the sun crosses the meridian; There is a time for everything.
    • : the particular point in time when an event is scheduled to take place: train time; curtain time.
    • : an indefinite, frequently prolonged period or duration in the future: Time will tell if what we have done here today was right.
    • : the right occasion or opportunity: to watch one's time.
    • : each occasion of a recurring action or event: to do a thing five times; It's the pitcher's time at bat.
    • : times, used as a multiplicative word in phrasal combinations expressing how many instances of a quantity or factor are taken together: Two goes into six three times; five times faster.
    • : Drama. one of the three unities.Compare unity.
    • : Prosody. a unit or a group of units in the measurement of meter.
    • : Music. tempo; relative rapidity of movement.the metrical duration of a note or rest.proper or characteristic tempo.the general movement of a particular kind of musical composition with reference to its rhythm, metrical structure, and tempo.the movement of a dance or the like to music so arranged: waltz time.
    • : Military. rate of marching, calculated on the number of paces taken per minute: double time; quick time.
    • : Manège. each completed action or movement of the horse.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or showing the passage of time.
    • : containing a clock so that it will detonate at the desired moment: a time bomb.
    • : Commerce. payable at a stated period of time after presentment: time drafts or notes.
    • : of or relating to purchases on the installment plan, or with payment postponed.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    timed, tim·ing.

    • : to measure or record the speed, duration, or rate of: to time a race.
    • : to fix the duration of: The proctor timed the test at 15 minutes.
    • : to fix the interval between: They timed their strokes at six per minute.
    • : to regulate as to time.
    • : to appoint or choose the moment or occasion for; schedule: He timed the attack perfectly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    timed, tim·ing.

    • : to keep time; sound or move in unison.

Phrases

  • time after time
  • time and a half
  • time and tide wait for no man
  • time bomb
  • time flies
  • time hangs heavy
  • time immemorial
  • time is money
  • time is ripe
  • time is up
  • time of day
  • time off
  • time of one's life
  • time on one's hands
  • time out
  • time out of mind
  • time warp
  • time was
  • time will tell
  • about time
  • against the clock (time)
  • ahead of one's time
  • ahead of time
  • all the time
  • at all times
  • at one time
  • at one time or another
  • at the same time
  • at this point (in time)
  • at times
  • beat time
  • behind in (time)
  • behind the times
  • bide one's time
  • big time
  • buy time
  • call one's (time one's) own
  • chow down (time)
  • crunch time
  • do time
  • every time one turns around
  • for the moment (time being)
  • from time to time
  • good-time Charlie
  • hard time
  • have a good time
  • high time
  • in between times
  • in due course (of time)
  • in good time
  • in no time
  • in the fullness of time
  • in the nick of time
  • in time
  • keep time
  • keep up (with the times)
  • kill time
  • less than (no time)
  • long time no see
  • lose time
  • make good time
  • make time
  • make up for lost time
  • many is the (time)
  • mark time
  • not give someone the time of day
  • no time for
  • no time like the present
  • of one's life, time
  • on borrowed time
  • once upon a time
  • one by one (at a time)
  • on one's own time
  • on time
  • pass the time
  • play for time
  • point in time
  • pressed for time
  • serve time
  • show someone a good time
  • small time
  • stitch in time
  • take one's time
  • take up space (time)
  • tell time
  • whale of a time

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
adjourn休会,押后,休庭,休会期bar吧台,酒吧,杠杠,栏block块,阻止,阻挡,块状defer延期,推迟,延迟,押后detain扣留,羁押,拘留,拘押hamper阻碍,篮子,阻碍物,篮板hold持有,举行,保持,持有的impede阻挡,阻阻,阻挡了,牵制keep保持,保持保持obstruct阻挠,阻挡,阻碍,妨碍postpone推迟,延迟,延期,推迟进行prevent防止,预防,阻止,避免prolong延长,延续,延展,延长时间put off推迟,延缓,推迟了,推迟执行restrict限制,约束,限定,限制性shelve搁置,搁浅,搁架,搁置的stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开stay逗留,保持,逗留时间,留suspend暂停,悬挂,吊销,暂缓withhold扣留,隐瞒,隐瞒不报,隐匿arrest逮捕,拘捕,抓捕,捕获check检查,检查一下choke窒息,卡住,噎住,噎住了clog堵塞,堵塞物,堵塞的问题,堵塞堵塞confine封闭,禁锢,禁闭,拘束curb路边,遏止,路边的,马路牙子dawdle磨磨蹭蹭,磨蹭,磨磨蹭蹭的,磨蹭了deter遏止,阻止,阻吓,遏阻dilly-dally磨磨蹭蹭,磨磨蹭蹭的,磨磨蹭蹭地,磨磨蹭蹭地走discourage劝阻,劝告,阻止,劝说drag拖动,拖累,拖拽,拖曳encumber负担,拖累,负担不起,拖累了filibuster拉布,拉布条,拉布战,拉皮条inhibit抑制,阻止,禁止,压制interfere干扰,干涉,干预,干擾intermit遗漏,隐瞒,漏报,隐匿lag落差,落后,落后于人,落后的linger流连忘返,徘徊,徘徊不前loiter闲逛,徘徊,游荡,徜徉procrastinate拖延时间,拖延,拖拖拉拉,迟迟不动prorogue序幕,序言,序曲,序厅protract旷日持久,拖延时间,延长时间,延长remand还押,还押犯,发回重审,收押repress压迫,压制,镇压,压抑retard迟钝,迟钝的人,迟缓,拖延时间slacken弛缓,松懈,松弛,弛缓的table桌子,表格,表,餐桌tarry耽搁,耽搁了,耽误时间,耽搁时间temporize暂缓,暂时的,暂时性的,暂时性bide time韬光养晦,缓兵之计,拖延时间,韬晦hold over搁置,把握住,保留,把握住了keep back隐退,隐瞒,隐忍,隐忍不发lay over搁置,敷设,叠加,铺设stave off缓和,避开,延缓,缓期执行
Antonyms
abandon抛弃,放弃,舍弃,弃置advance进展,晋级,进展情况,预付款aid援助allow允许,容许,让,准许assist帮助,协助,辅助,辅佐carry out贯彻执行,进行,实施,进行的continue继续,继续说,延续,继续进行do做,做到,做什么,做事encourage鼓励,激励,励,励志expedite加快,尽快,加速,加快推进forward谈到这个free免费的,免费,自由的,自由further进一步,更进一步,进一步推动,进一步推进go去,走,前往,走吧help帮助,帮忙,帮忙的,帮助的let go放手,松手,放手吧,放开open开放,开放的,开放式,开放式的permit许可证,允许,许可,准许promote促进,推动,推广,推销release释放,发布,发行,发布会support支持,支助,支撑,支持率complete完整的,完整,完全,完成finish结束,完毕,结束语,完结hurry匆匆忙忙,匆忙,赶时间,快点leave离开,离开这里,离开了,离开时liberate解放,解脱,释放,解救push推动,促进,推,推进rush匆匆忙忙,匆匆忙忙的,匆忙中,匆匆忙忙地unblock解除封锁,解开,疏通,疏解dispatch派遣,派出所,派遣人员,调遣hasten匆匆忙忙,催促,催促着,匆匆忙忙地speed速度,速度快,速度快慢

Examples

  • I can’t remember the first time I held one, but I also can’t remember a time before I did.

  • Every time he goes anywhere where he might encounter other people, they’re tested, just as he’s tested for the virus regularly.

  • The Greens dawdled in filing their challenge, during which time county clerks began putting the ballots together.

  • In September of 2018, the NLRB majority moved for a third time to curtail the Obama-era joint-employer rule, this time through a rulemaking process.

  • I suggested iMessage, since that’s how we communicate about 90 percent of the time anyway.

  • Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.

  • But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

  • “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  • As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

  • Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.

  • I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.

  • Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

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