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one-time

/wuhn-tahym/US // ˈwʌnˌtaɪm //

一次性的,一次性,单次,一次

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having been as specified at one time; former: my one-time partners.
    • : occurring, done, or accomplished only once: his one-time try at elective office.

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Examples

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

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

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

  • Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

  • Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

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