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单词 as you were
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as you were
d. Originally Military. as you were: (as a command in drill): ‘return to the position in which you were before’; also in extended use (colloquial).
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as you were1625
1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 21 To reduce any of these words of direction to the same order or station in which the Souldier stood before..you shall say..As you were.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 52 in Wks. II When my Muster-Master..cries, Faces about to the right hand, the left, Now, as you were.
1680 A. Radcliffe in Rochester's Poems 133 And be Godly a while ho, and then as you were.
1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple i. ii. 11 To the right about as you were, march Colonel.
1760 W. Windham Plan Discipline Norfolk Militia (new ed.) vii. 138 The grenadiers doubling in the same manner as they did before; at the word, As you were! the centre platoons face to the right.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 68As you were’, a military phrase in drilling; used in a Slang sense to one who is going on too fast in his assertions, and wants recalling to moderation.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. vi. 97 General amicable As-you-were, between Austria and Bavaria.
1871 J. W. T. Questions & Answers on Company Drill 28 The men [are] frequently to be brought back to the ‘ready’ by the command ‘as you were’.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 11 As you were: The ordinary military word of command, used colloquially by way of acknowledging a mistake in anything said, e.g., ‘I saw Smith—as you were—I mean Brown.’
1992 H. Turtledove Guns of South (1993) 121 He scrambled to his feet for General Lee. So did most of the other soldiers... ‘As you were, gentlemen, please.’
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