英和和英

前置詞句

at some point

1. Sometime; at an indefinite time.
   • 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     ‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129:

     Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.

   • 2025 April 9, Quinta Jurecic, “What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?”, in The Atlantic:

     Ruling in the immunity case, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to serenely arrogate to the Court an immense power to determine whether the president might ever face criminal consequence without worrying whether the emboldening of a rampaging executive might at some point place the authority of the judiciary in danger.