| 单词 | back and forth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasback and forth 14. †back and fore (archaic or dialect), back and forth, back and forward: backwards and forwards, to and fro. Also as attributive phr. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > to and fro [phrase] hither and thitherc725 downa1200 to and fro1340 to and again1612 back and forward1613 sourse deorse1616 backward and forwarda1711 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > back and forth to and fro1340 to and again1612 back and forward1613 backward and forwarda1711 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. 196 Lengthning the time by..vnnecessarie turnings, backe and forth. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 107 He would go back and fore [printed sore] along the foresaid rope. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits ii. 5 All Material Benefits are tossed back, and forward, and change their Master. 1816 J. Pickering Vocab. U.S. (at cited word) Back and Forth, backwards and forwards. Ex. He was walking back and forth. This is a very common expression in New England; but it is used only in conversation. 1837 W. Dunlap Mem. Water Drinker (ed. 2) I. 57 I am not one of your brook trout to be played back and forth with a hair line as her husband catches um. 1839 Anecd. & Trad. (Camd.) Young girls..dance over the candle back and forth. 1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 199 Barristers..flitted back and forward through the passages. 1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 138 They would run here and there, back and forth, at full speed along the sands. 1872 Congr. Rec. Dec. 243/1 Various propositions were made [between the U.S. and France] back and forth. 1884 Roe in Harper's Mag. Sept. 540/2 I will go back and forth every day. 1899 Congress. Rec. Feb. 1743/1 Some of you..remember when at Vicksburg our boys got so close to the Confederates that they talked back and forth. 1907 U. Sinclair Industr. Republic p. xii I would find myself comparing..the two eras, and transposing its leading figures back and forth. 1909 E. B. Titchener Text-bk. Psychol. I. x. 47 This back-and-forth movement will continue. 1962 Listener 1 Mar. 377/1 Both dangers can be avoided if there is enough back-and-forth traffic of ideas, information, and influence. back and forth a. Of movement or direction: Forwards; opposed to backwards. Obsolete except in back and forth, now only U.S. (? or dialect) = ‘backwards and forwards’. †Also, with ellipsis of go. Cf. A. 6b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [adverb] awayeOE forneOE forthc1000 forthwardc1175 furtherlyc1175 toforec1330 forea1400 forwarda1400 furtherwarda1400 avauntc1400 forwardsc1400 onwardc1425 toward1426 forouth1487 up to ——1516 forth on1529 onwards1540 aheada1615 forrita1796 advancingly1820 onwardly1831 forwardly1876 c1000 Ælfric Joshua viii. 20 [Hi] ne mihton ðanon fleon, ne forþ ne underbæc. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 155 Þat riȝtwisnesse may not forþ in her vertuouse lyuynge. c1430 Hymns Virg. 97 While riȝt schal forþ, & no mercie. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra v. 8 Ye worke goeth fast forth. 1543 T. Basil in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1816) I. l. 615 If his grace go forth as he hath begun, he shall [etc.]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlix Eche armye..beyng in open sight..euery man cried furth, furth. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe i. sig. A2v Green. I seeke..by the passage of my discource to haue you censure the state of our quarrel. Bell. Forth Sir. 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. 196 Lengthning the time by..vnnecessarie turnings, backe and forth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 186 Then forth, deare Countreymen. View more context for this quotation 1839 Anecd. & Trad. (Camd.) Young girls..dance over the candle back and forth. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 203 Back and forth her needle goes. < as lemmas |
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