then

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 连词 conj.
/ðɛn/    /ðɛn/|/ðen/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That time.
    — It will be finished before then.
形容词 adj.
  1. Being so at that time. not-comparable
    — He had met his then girlfriend when he had just started university. The relationship ended unhappily when the girlfriend complained that he never wanted to go out.
副词 adv.
  1. At that time. not-comparable
    — He was happy then.
  2. Soon afterward. not-comparable
    — He fixed it, then left.
  3. Next in order of place. not-comparable,sequence
    — There are three green ones, then a blue one.
  4. In addition; also; besides. not-comparable
    — Another legend says that now and again in the world's history a monarch appears who conquers and rules every nation under the sun. […] Then many of the Siamese believe that the animal is inhabited by the soul of some great man of the past […]
  5. In that case. conjunctive,not-comparable
    — If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
  6. At the same time; on the other hand. not-comparable,sequence
    — That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
  7. Used to contradict an assertion. UK,dialectal,not-comparable
    — ‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’ ‘They're not then.’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They're –’ ‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.
连词 conj.
  1. Obsolete spelling of than. alt-of,obsolete
    — […]his hand, more ſad [i.e., heavy, hard] then lomp of lead,[…]
  2. Misspelling of than. alt-of,misspelling

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Swedish då (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
词源 2
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Swedish då (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
词源 3
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Swedish då (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
词源 4
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Swedish då (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
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