Locution anglaise du jour

Définitions

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by the time
1. v. Au moment où.
The young man was dead by the time doctors arrived.
Le jeune homme était mort au moment où les médecins sont arrivés.
anglais > anglais
by the time
1. prep. When (some future event has come to pass).
I'll be an old man by the time you finish!
Analyse
by
1. prep. Chez, parmi, tout près de, au bord de, sur.
I live by the sea.
J'habite au bord de la mer.
The museum is by the zoo.
Le musée est tout près du zoo.
the
1. art. Le, la, les.
time
1. n. Temps.
I don't have the time to do this.
Je n'ai pas le temps de faire ça.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Exemples de phrases

Every time you end an affair you drag it out by worrying and fretting that it may not be the right thing, so by the time it finally ends you've convinced yourself that all women are worthless, and all love impossible.  By the time I was eighteen I'd been arrested three times for drunken brawling.  Why by the time midnight came around I was downright elated about the whole idea.  By the time my dad got into the bath room, mother was just calming down enough to see that the reddish marks around my lips were lipstick residue.  She inhaled the gas, and by the time we took her to hospital she died.

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