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单词 outward bound
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outward bound
2. Prepared or purposing to go, starting, directing one's course, destined. With for (to, into obsolete), or adverb of motion. Phrases, homeward bound, outward bound.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective]
boundc1400
bent1697
destinedc1790
city-bound1844
space-bound1955
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > on course [phrase] > bound for
bound1589
up1870
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3788 When thai saw him theder bown.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum i. xii. 33 Deere frend..whodir art thou bone?
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados ix. vii. 21 Quhiddir ar ȝe boun, ȝe schaw vs plane.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H3 A Barke bounde for Arcadie.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vi. 9 Th' Embassador that was bound for England. View more context for this quotation
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 156. ⁋1 We may see the Son of Ulysses bound on the same Expedition.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 370 He gave out at Macao, that he was bound to Batavia.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. x. 226 You see a Traveller, Bound upon hard adventure.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 635 The ships which were bound for New England were crowded.
1866 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 206 Bound on we know not what errand.
figurative.1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Hiiiv Where oure confessyon is bounde, lette oure hartes bee represented.1595 E. Spenser Amoretti viii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A5v Angels come to lead fraile mindes to rest In chast desires on heauenly beauty bound.
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