英语词汇“in the wake of”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. in the wake of.

a. Nautical or quasi-nautical. in the wake of (a vessel); in her (its) wake, etc.: immediately behind, and (according to a literal interpretation of the phrase) in the actual track made by, a vessel; immediately backward and along the track made. Also used of any person or persons aboard, as in his, our, etc., wake; behind his, our, etc., vessel.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [phrase] > in the wake of

in the wake ofa1547

a1547 MS. Harl. 309 f. 4 No ship to ride in another's walk.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) A ship is said to be in the wake of another, when she follows her on the same track.

1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. in East 22/1 The frigate, which has us in tow, hollows out ahead of us a level and murmuring path, along which we glide in her wake.

1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru II. iv. iv. 164 [They] fell on his little troop whenever he attempted to land, and followed in his wake for miles in their canoes.

1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xvi. 193 The Mysticetus' best point of view is right behind, or ‘in his wake’, as we say.

b. Nautical in transferred uses: (a) In the direct line aft from (any object on board ship, or any specified part of her). Usually in wake of. (b) In the line of sight of (an observed object). (c) In the line of recoil of (a gun).

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adverb] > in the line of sight of

in the wake of1711

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [adverb] > in line of gun's recoil

in the wake of1711

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > rear part of vessel > in the rear (of) [phrase]

on, in steerc1374

a sternc1500

on stern1616

astern of1634

in wake of1711

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1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 44 The Timbers to be equally scarfed, the Middle of one Timber being in the Wake of the Head and Heels of the others.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 138 We found our own Main-top-mast sprung in the Wake of the Cap.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding i. 5 The bottom was strengthened by doubling the whole of the inner plates up to the turn of the bilge for 50 feet in wake of the engines.

1879 W. H. White Ship-building in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 61/1 These longitudinal tie-plates form excellent strengthenings to the deck in wake of the principal hatchways.

1896 Daily News 4 Nov. 2/4 The deck, which was also found to be started in the wake of the mast.

(b)1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Two distant objects observed at sea are called in the wake of each other, when the view of the farthest is intercepted by the nearest.(c)c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 69 They give..support to the beams in the wake of the guns.1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. xviii. §288. 303 In the wake of the explosion of the heavy guns, as at the embrasures, etc., the whole of the frames are of the larger size.

c. transferred and figurative (a) With nautical metaphor (often jocular): Following close behind (a person compared to a ship). (b) In wider use (cf. sense 2): in the train or track of, behind (a moving person or object); in imitation of; following as a result or consequence.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [phrase]

in the wake of1806

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > consequently or as a result [phrase]

unto so micklec1390

per consequencec1395

by suing?a1425

by consequent1489

by relation1565

of consequence1573

by consequence1581

occasion1634

in suit ofa1652

in consequence of1683

owing to1744

in consequence1775

in the wake of1866

(a)

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. 114 A great man in office is like a great whale in the ocean; there will be a sword-fish and a thresher, a Junius and a John Wilkes, ever in his wake and arming to attack him.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall ii. 19 He was swept off in the vortex that followed in the wake of this lady.

1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies ii She found herself..following in the wake of her stately parents.

1901 G. Meredith Reading of Life 1 Each claims worship undivided In her wake would have us wallow.

(b)1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlv. 46 Night, when carts came rumbling by, filled with rude coffins..; when orphans cried, and distracted women shrieked and followed in their wake.1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve I. v. 84 Such love does not bring peace in its wake.1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxx. 683 Wealth followed in the wake of traffic.1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxxii. 256 Brown dust that came rolling in the wake of our carriage.1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 214 [A man], when he talks of the hum of machinery or the boom of the cannon,..is following in the wake of the inventors of Language.1911 G. Macdonald Roman Wall Scotl. x. 351 A proof that Eastern traders had found their way as far north as the Caledonian frontier in the wake of the Roman army.

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