词汇 | something thing, a |
释义 | a sometime thingAn activity that one participates or engages in infrequently, sporadically, or in a limited capacity. With two kids at home, my career in finance has had to take priority, with writing only being a sometime thing. Ever since the power plant shut down, work in this part of the country has become kind of a sometime thing. something thing, aSomething occasional or transient, as in For most free-lance musicians, work is a sometime thing. This idiom gained currency in the title of a song by George Gershwin, "A Woman Is A Sometime Thing" (1935), introduced in the folk opera Porgy and Bess. |
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