英汉词典

now 基本解释

• adv. 现在；如今；立刻
• adj. 现在的
• n. 现在；目前
• conj. 由于；既然

now 中文词源

来自古英语nu,现在，可能原义为新的，词源同new.

nowadays 现今

即现在的日子，现今。

now 英文词源

now

now: [OE] Now is the English member of a widespread family of words denoting ‘present time’ that are traceable back to Indo-European *nu- or *nū- (a relative of the ancestor of new). Others include Greek nun, Latin nunc, Sanskrit nū, Czech nyní, and, among the Germanic languages, German nun and Dutch, Swedish, and Danish nu. (French maintenant ‘now’, incidentally, originally meant literally ‘holding in the hand’, and developed its present sense via ‘at hand’ and ‘soon’.)

now (adv.)

Old English nu "now, at present, immediately; now that," also used as an interjection and as an introductory word; common Germanic (Old Norse nu, Dutch nu, Old Frisian nu, German nun, Gothic nu "now"), from PIE *nu "now" (cognates: Sanskrit and Avestan nu, Old Persian nuram, Hittite nuwa, Greek nu, nun, Latin nunc, Old Church Slavonic nyne, Lithuanian nu, Old Irish nu-). Perhaps originally "newly, recently," and related to the root of new.

Often merely emphatic; non-temporal usage (as in Now, then) was in Old English. The adjective meaning "up to date" first recorded 1967, but the word was used also as an adjective in Middle English with the sense "current" from late 14c. Now and then "occasionally" is from 1530s; now or never attested from 1550s.

now 词组搭配

now 英文释义

1. the momentary present;

"Now is a good time to do it"

"it worked up to right now"

now 双语例句

1. Husband and wife are now taxed separately on their incomes.

现在夫妻双方分别按各自的收入纳税。

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2. A journalist all his life, he's now brought out a book.

他当了一辈子新闻记者，如今已出了一本书。

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3. He will now face a disciplinary hearing for having an affair.

他因有外遇而要面临纪律听证会的裁决。

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4. The crowds had been soaked and were now nicely drying out.

这群人都浑身湿透，现在谢天谢地快晾干了。

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5. Shirley's brother is now a consultant heart surgeon in Sweden.

雪利的兄弟现在在瑞典做心脏外科高级顾问医师。

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now 实用场景例句

She's a widow now...

她现在是寡妇。

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But we are now a much more fragmented society...

但我们现在所处的是一个更加四分五裂的社会。

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I'm sorry, but I must go now...

很抱歉我得马上走了。

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I fear that if I don't write now I shall never have another opportunity to do so.

我担心如果我不立即开始写作的话，就永远都不会再有机会了。

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Now you're settled, why don't you take up some serious study?...

既然你已经安顿下来了，为什么不开始正经地学点东西呢？

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Now that she was retired she lived with her sister.

现在她已经退休了，和姐姐一起住。

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Mrs Chandra has received one sweater for each of her five children and says that the winter will not be so hard now...

钱德拉夫人已经收到了5个孩子每人一件的毛衣，她说这下冬天就不那么难挨了。

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She told me not to repeat it, but now I don't suppose it matters...

她曾告诉我不要再重蹈覆辙，但这下我认为已经无关紧要了。

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She felt a little better now...

这时她觉得好点儿了。

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It was too late now for Blake to lock his room door...

这会儿布莱克再锁房门已太晚了。

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They've been married now for 30 years...

到现在他们已经结婚30年了。

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They have been missing for a long time now...

现在他们已失踪很长一段时间了。

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'Now then,' Max said, 'to get back to the point.'...

“好吧”，马克斯说,“回到正题上来。”

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She stays at school for drama and doesn't get back till nine. Now, what's everyone drinking?...

她留在学校排戏，要到9点才回来。喂，大家要喝什么？

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Now, er, dogs can live to fifteen...

哦，狗能活15年。

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Now, erm, obviously some of our listeners may have some ideas.

嗯，对了，显然我们的一些听众可能会有些想法。

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Come on now. You know you must be hungry...

好，来吧，你肯定已经饿了。

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Come and sit down here, now...

好，来，坐在这儿。

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My son went to Almeria in Southern Spain. Now he and his wife are people who love a quiet holiday...

我儿子去了西班牙南部的阿尔梅里亚，你看，他和妻子是喜欢过安静假期的那种人。

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Now, I hadn't told him these details, so he must have done some research on his own.

你看，我没有告诉他这些细节，因此他一定是自己作了一些调查。

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Now, if it was me, I'd want to do more than just change the locks...

不过，如果是我，我要做的就不仅仅是换锁了。

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Now, as for the Democrats, they've been able to use this issue quite effectively to portray the president as insensitive.

然而，对民主党人来说，他们成功利用了这个问题来渲染总统的麻木不仁。

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My father has a collection of magazines to which I return every now and then...

我爸爸收藏了很多杂志，我有时会翻看一下。

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Now and again he'd join in when we were playing video games.

我们玩电子游戏时，他偶尔会和我们一起玩。

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Jim expects to be sent to Europe any day now...

吉姆预计随时会被派到欧洲去。

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Any moment now the silence will be broken.

寂静随时会被打破。

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And now for something completely different...

下面是完全不同的事情。

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Now for a quick look at some of the other stories in the news.

下面我们快速浏览一下其他新闻报道。

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You looked pretty upset just now...

你刚才看上去挺难过的。

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I spoke just now of being in love...

我刚才说起坠入爱河的事。

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