| 单词 | far off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfar off a. At a distance; distant (in space or time); away; (also) not on target. Often after a statement of the distance; also in far off or (now rare) afar off.Frequently preceding another adverbial expression of location, as off to the side. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] wideOE awaya1375 upon farc1380 offc1400 aferroma1425 at length?1611 in distans1645 the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance ferrenc888 farc900 longOE afarc1300 yond13.. on length1340 alonga1382 adreigha1393 on dreicha1400 afar offc1400 far-aboutc1450 alengtha1500 distantlya1500 remote1589 remotely1609 yferrea1643 out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650 adistance1807 away1818 way1833 way1833 way off1836 way out1840 α. β. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 213 Greete a redde man and a bearded woman three myles off.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 610 A little off runneth a River.a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 124/2 No; beleeve sir, I would have him fight, but not so far off from me.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 14 We see the Cape or extreame point of Africk 12 leagues off.1671 R. Montague in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 501 These are projects a great way off.1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. xii. 294 A Street or two off . View more context for this quotation1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. i. 12 I think, thine own band lies as far off as York.1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance (1882) I. xviii There's a barber's bairn twa doors aff that wad maybe be glad o' them.1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life II. 173 We shall meet at Oxford in October, not much more than a month off.1889 Testimony Alleged Election Outrages Texas (U.S. Senate, 50th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 717 Q. Is Watts's house on the main road?—A. No; it is off to the side.1897 H. Caine Christian i. xi. 50 Glory stood off from the looking-glass and looked.1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. v. 263 Chester Wilcox lived..about five miles off in an adjacent valley.1977 H. Kaplan Damascus Cover (1978) iv. 33 On the pistol range Ari discovered..that his aim was way off.1988 Which? June 267/2 The benefits are..some years off.1999 R. Tremain Music & Silence (2000) ii. 211 They have a destination and it is not far off.2004 Trail May 105/1 Ignore a stile and path off to the left, keeping to the right of a wire fence.c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3920 (MED) Of Perce Ich am, fer of by est. c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 213 One come and sayd that she was ix myle of. a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 66 (MED) He left to hym no friend..fled fer of. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvi. f. xxxix Peter folowed hym a farre of [so 16th c. vv., 1611 off]. < as lemmas |
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