by and by

英 [baɪ ənd baɪ]

美 [baɪ ənd baɪ]

不久，马上

英英释义

adv

• at some eventual time in the future
  1. By and by he'll understand
  2. I'll see you later
  Synonym:later

双语例句

• The soil is depleted first by having crops grown in it and second by natural weathering and bacterial action.
  土壤首先是被种植其中的作物消耗掉，其次受自然风化和细菌活动的侵蚀。
• He works in an office by day and drives a taxi by night.
  他白天上班，晚上开出租车。
• Indeed, when twitter rolled out promoted tweets tweets written by and paid for by advertisers roughly a year ago, there were only six marketers; now there are 600.
  的确，大概一年前，Twitter公司推出PromotedTweets（由广告主撰写并付费发布的Tweet）时，仅有6家公司买账；而现在则达到600家之多。
• Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations
  女性往往受到家庭责任和低期望值的束缚。
• All of this requires power, and that power is most efficiently produced by coal and by oil.
  所有这些都需要电，而发电的最有效方式是通过煤炭或石油。
• The business was worked by women and owned by men.
  所有房地产公司都是女人打工，男人当老板。
• She's indexed the book by author, by age, and by illustrator.
  她根据作者、年龄和插图画家分别为该书编了索引。
• I'm going by bike, and you may go by bus.
  我呢，骑自行车去，你们呢，坐汽车去。
• The camp is surrounded by razor-wire fences and guarded by military police.
  营地周围架着尖利的铁丝网，且有宪兵看守。
• There is a mismatch between the skills offered by people and the skills needed by industry.
  行业需要的技术与人们可以提供的技能并不匹配。