Now

(noun.) the momentary present; 'Now is a good time to do it'; 'it worked up to right now'.

(adv.) used to preface a command or reproof or request; 'now hear this!'; 'now pay attention'.

(adv.) at the present moment; 'goods now on sale'; 'the now-aging dictator'; 'they are now abroad'; 'he is busy at present writing a new novel'; 'it could happen any time now'.

(adv.) in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events; 'President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard'; 'Washington now decides to cross the Delaware'; 'the ship is now listing to port'.

(adv.) in the immediate past; 'told me just now'.

(adv.) (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; 'Now the next problem is...'.

科林整理

• Father's a sweeter singer than ever; you'd never have forgotten it, if you'd aheard him just now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Now, Mr. Hilton Cubitt, please continue your most interesting statement. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• You have now a--hum--a great position to support. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• All Russia now is a huge experiment in that dictatorship (August, 1920). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He would have taken it before now, I believe, but for Fledgeby. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That inscription is now erased. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Now, what do you think? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Why, my dear lad, I am even now courting the Nine, and turning Aristophanes into good English verse. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• You have already done me good, and you and I are now, I hope, sworn friends. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But now he is finished. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Now, I am going to examine you out of my own head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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