elapsed 经过
- Three years have elapsed since we met last time.
我们上次相见至今已经三年了。 - Several decades have elapsed since I graduated from the college.
我大学毕业已数十年了。
elapsed[ adj ]
(of time) having passed or slipped by
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elapsed time
Elapse \E*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Elapsed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Elapsing}.] [L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e
out + labi to fall, slide. See {Lapse}.]
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; --
used chiefly in reference to time.
Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. --Hoole.
- Unofficial elapsed mission time was 4 days, 23 hours and 41 minutes.
- Institute director Peter Gallinor noted in a speech that five years had elapsed since the kidnapping of Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, and British journalist John McCarthy.
- "The dad gave the dispatcher a hard time," Simmons said. "He was cussing him out." Simmons said six days elapsed between the incident and the arrest because he did not get the case until Monday.
- In another instance, the GAO found that more than a year elapsed before the Army detected a $307,000 duplicate payment to a contractor, the study said.
- The Iranian hostage examples show that when notification has to be withheld may depend not on how much time has elapsed, but on the character of the operation.
- Her elapsed time _ the actual time on the course minus the time spent on mandatory breaks _ set a record for the race's longer, more arduous northern route.
- Time elapsed: two weeks.
- Fairstein, however, testified that no more than 10 minutes elapsed between the time Mrs. Salaam told her the boy was 15 and the time the woman was allowed to see her son.
- The Enquirer didn't learn through its daily police calls that there was another arrest in the case and neither Rouch nor his attorney complained until nearly a year had elapsed and the lawsuit was prepared.
- Perhaps the environment to the north was too unsuitable, or the Neanderthals too well established, to allow a migration until all that time had elapsed, he said.
- A study by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shows that the district's 12 judges consistently beat all 93 other federal jurisdictions in elapsed time between the filing of litigants' papers and the start of a civil trial.