Untimely

(a.) Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.

(adv.) Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.

杰拉尔德编辑

• No implicated man or woman took untimely courage, or made a self-betraying step. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• What made him seek this quarter of the house at an untimely season, when he should have been asleep in bed? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He was prevented, by an untimely end, from bringing his invention to any degree of perfection. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Peace, and move on, said Cedric, his anger at this untimely jest being checked by the recollection of Wamba's recent services. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When I remembered where I was at that untimely hour, a feeling stole upon me that made me get up, afraid of I don't know what, and walk about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It is not for nothing that I have turned myself out of bed at the untimely hour of six. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Margaret, what comment can I make on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Was he the only passenger who came on board at that untimely hour? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A gathering call ran among the faculties, their bugles sang, their trumpets rang an untimely summons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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