| 单词 | drag in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drag in (into) 2. figurative. Said of other than physical force, or local motion. to drag in (into), to introduce (a subject) in a forced manner, or unnecessarily. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt (speech) [verb (transitive)] > interpose interpone1523 interpose1605 to throw in1630 to edge in1683 to put in1693 interject1791 interjaculate1853 to drag in (into)1868 to chip in1872 interpolate1881 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. iii. 21 What impediments Drag backe our expedition. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 24 My Affaires Doe euen drag me home-ward. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 Dragg'd back again by cruel Destinies. View more context for this quotation 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. 351 A Writer of great Name drags a thousand Followers after him into his own Mistakes. 1853 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 127 1173 Everything that could possibly be dragged into the case. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 4 His habit of dragging in the most irrelevant tales. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 479 His pleasure is to drag words this way and that. 1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. ix. 124 To know why she must be dragged out to these people's stupid parties. drag in 13. to drag along, on: see sense 6a; drag in: see sense 2; to drag on, out: see sense 5. < as lemmas |
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