| 单词 | how goes the world with |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow goes the world with (a person) b. how the world goes: how events shape themselves; how goes the world with (a person): how are his (or her) affairs. Now archaic. ΚΠ 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 70 They knowe not how the world gooth [Du. hoet gaet dye werelt]. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. iv. sig. Tiij What is the matter, or howe gothe the worlde with hym? 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 18 Now let vs go..and see how the worlde goeth with maister Antonius. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 83 However the world goes, we may yet make a tolerable shift. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. i. 16 But first, how goes the world with you, Simon? 1886 L. Morris Gycia iii. iii. 107 Good my lord, How goes the world with thee? 1984 C. H. Sisson Coll. Poems 309 A commonplace is good for nothing now, Yet that is how the world goes, all the same. < as lemmas |
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